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THE ROSE CROSS ORDER 

A short sketch of the History of the Rose Cross Order in 
America, together with a sketch of the life of Dr. P. B. Ran- 
dolph, the Founder of the Order. 

Also a short history of his persecutions and prosecutions, 
which resulted in giving him greater freedom than he had before, 
and which trial proved that the things of which he had been 
accused were absolutely false. 

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 




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Introduction and Notes by Dr. R: Swinburne Clymer 
Copyrighted 1916. All Rights Reserved. 

Published by 

THE PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 

Allentown, Pa 

For the Members of the Rose Cross Order 



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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 

AN INTRODUCTION 

In the wonderful and remarkable story, "The Mysteries of 
Myra." Wonderful, because it seems impossible that a sup- 
posed authority on a subject should be able to bring so many 
inconsistencies into so short a space, and remarkable, because 
it seems impossible that such an inconsistent story, would be 
seriously considered by mankind in general; however, there is 
at least one true statement in it. In speaking of the Black 
Brotherhood, the author of the story, Hereward Carrington, 
made the following statement: "The order is one of the most 
ancient origin — thousands of years old, I have been told. The 
order had been virtually wiped out in Europe because of the 
great war, but the master intends starting branches throughout 
the United States within the next few weeks. If he succeeds, 
heaven help the hapless country." 

The reason the story by Carrington has been accepted, is 
because it is, on the whole, accepted only as a story, and as 
containing but very little truth, but these people who accept the 
story, forget, that no lie can be told, unless there is a foundation 
of truth in it, and few of the thousands who are reading the 
story, would really believe that the one statement quoted is an 
absolute truth, as I propose to show throughout this article. 

Herewith, I will give extracts from a letter received but a 
few weeks ago by an editor of a magazine published in Chicago. 
This editor has been fighting the blacks for some years, and 
many victims have written to her, giving their tale of woe, but 
most of them have been afraid to reveal their names, fearing this 
arch-fraternity to that degree. 



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I use these extracts, because it is upon them that I will base 
my introduction, and because i" have in my possession, under 
guard of the Inner Circle, the letters which will prove every 
statement made, and in case some of the leaders of these blacks 
should succeed in making good their threat, of sending me to 
the "Beyond" before my time, that all these proofs will be in 
good hands. And it is for this reason that I write this at this 
time, for, should they succeed in giving me the undesired, but 
not unlooked for, send off, both the Order I represent, and its 
work will be defended and protected. 

In the letter, marked "not for publication," which begins 
with a reference to an author who is now in the limelight, the 
writer says: 

"She was a Fellow of the Theosophical Society, for some 
years unknown to the writer, until the year 1898, when Katharine 
Tingley changed the Theosophical Society into the Universal 
Brotherhood, at the Chicago Convention. She was in 1898 what 
one would distinctly call a medium. She afterwards, the year 
not being known to the writer, joined a Society, a so-called 
Rosicrucian Society, called "Golden Dawn," whose hierophant 
was then, and is now. the Kaballist, Liddell McGregor Mathers. 

"Some hints in regard to this secret organization ar egiven in 
the "The Equinox." The editor of "The Equinox," one who 
called himself "Frater Perdorado," but who is known as Aleister 
Crowley, is one of the most evil, and probably the most degraded 
creature in the world. 

"No member of this infernal organization, ever met by 
the writer was anything but a lying psychic, or a potential devil." 

There is one mistake made in this letter, and that is, that 
Crowley is not a member of the Rosicrucian Order, of which 
Mathers is the Hierophant. 

A history of the trial in the Court of London is now before 
me, in which it was not only clearly proven that Crowley had 
been made a member of the Mathers Rosicrucian Body through 



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misrepresentation, or some other fraudulent scheme, but that 
he had also been debarred from the body, because of the un- 
speakable life that he had led. 

But this man Crowley was not satisfied with his evil deeds, 
and by upholding publicly the most revolting practices, such 
as were aired in the Courts of India, but he had gone a step 
further, and attempted to expose, through his filthy sheet, the 
inner work of the Rosicrucian Order of which he had formerly 
been a member, and for v/hich he had been expelled from the 
order. 

The "Order of the Golden Dawn" is, so far as we can learn, 
not the child of Mathers, but that of Crowley, and we under- 
stand that Crowley, the arch-evil worker, is now in the City of 
New York, where he has, or is attempting, to start the "Order 
of the Golden Dawn," and, being evil incarnate, and the 
charges of immorality was uncontradicted by him when he sat in 
the Courts of London and listened to these fearful accusations, 
is no doubt teaching these evil practices to those who fall vic- 
tims to his distructive and degrading philosophies. * 

Eut this is not all, this man has no right to any of the 
Rosicrucian teachings that he may have, because no right, as 
was proven at the trial in London, had ever been given to him 
by the Rosicrucian body, nor has he any right whatever, to the 
title of "Order of the Dawn" or "Order of the Golden Dawn." 
These titles forming part of the Corporate power of an American 
Corporation, incorporated some eight years ago. 

Of this man too much cannot be said. Or, one might say, 
too little cannot be said of him, since he and his work should 
be forgotten. During the trial in London it was clearly shown 



*Those desiring complete information concerning people, 
teachings, etc., should write to "The Looking Glass," 149 
Fleet street, E. C, London, England, and get copies of issue 
Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec, 1910, and May 6th, 1911. 



The Rose Cross Order 



that he upheld the most revolting practices, practices which work 
to the destruction of not only the Occulist, but the destruction 
of any man or woman who is unfortunate enough to fall a victim 
to them. 

The only reason we mention this man Crowley is because 
he is a great possibility for evil; he is in New York City, and 
is attempting to establish in that great city lodges of the most 
deadly and destructive evils. Evils such as put White Slavery 
to the blush. In other words, without passing judgment, but 
according to the testimony of men in the London trial, he is 
worse than a moral leper, if there is such a thing. 

This brings us to another phase of the great controversy, 
namely, the work of some members of the Theosophical Society, 
though I wish it to be clearly understood that this article is not 
indicting the Theosophical Society as a whole, but only certain 
members thereof who have no sense of honor. 

In the year 1858 the Rose Cross Order was started in 
America by Dr. P. B. Randolph. It is not my desire to give a 
history of this Order, as it is fully given in other books. 

Dr. Randolph taught the Rose Cross Doctrine and prac- 
tices, many of which are outlined in books. He founded Lodges, 
which were secret and in accordance with the rules of the Society. 
Moreover, many books were published during his life, as records 
show, and never for a moment did he give up the work of the 
Order. 

But some years ago, some of the leaders of the Theosophical 
Society saw that the Theosophical Society was loosing ground, 
and, being exceptionally shrewd, they also saw the progress that 
the Rose Cross Order, as founded by Dr. Randolph, was mak- 
ing. They furthermore found, that through long years of hard 
work the Rosicrucian School of Philosophy had become well 
known. 

What then was the plan? A very simple one though very 
dishonest, but what is honor to men and women who have been 



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openly accused of deeds that are foul? Their plan was to es- 
tablish Temples of the Rose Cross throughout the country, to 
admit men and women to them upon the payment of a fee, and 
the passing of a ceremonial Initiation. 

Absolutely no account was taken of the fact, that the Rose 
Cross Order had been long and honorably established. That 
ceremonies were the lesser part of the Great School, but, on the 
contrary, it was a great school of thought, and of Spiritual 
traning, ceremonial initiation being the end of the Great Work. 
All these facts were cast aside, all they considered was the fact 
that the true school had, through its good work, made the Order 
well known. 

When the head of the Order in America protested to the 
leader of the movement, she replied, stating that the Rose Cross 
was an old Order, and anyone could establish a body by that 
name. * 

What can one do to meet such an argument ? These people 
forgot that only one body of a given name can be established in 
a country, and even the State laws recognize this fact . 

They either did not know, or did not care, that the Rose 
Cross had been established for the express purpose of teaching 
men and women the true, the exalted and the refined life; and 
while ceremonial Initiation binds men and women together as a 
Society, it has little to do with the reformation of mankind in 
general. In other words, they either did not know, or did not 
care, for truth, for law and for order, all they cared for was 
their own purely selfish aim, and it was immaterial to them 
whether they, who profess to be spiritual teachers, would break 
every law in the spiritual catalog, so long as their object could 
be attained. 

Although these leaders thought they could accomplish won- 
ders through the open steal of this honorable, and honorably 



*See Exhibit A and B at end of Notes. 



3 The Ros e Cross Order 

used title, they have no doubt found that to the people a Lodge is 
simply a Lodge, no matter what its title may be. Therefore, 
they must be greatly disappointed in having sacrificed so much 
honor of manhood, and of having received so little in return for 
the sacrifice. 

But, it is the history of the Sublime Order, that time and 
again should its name be deliberately stolen, that time and 
again should its leaders and its teachers be persecuted and pros- 
ecuted. This has been the history of the true Order, but always 
and forever, were those who persecuted and who stole defeated 
in the end, and died an ignoble death, "History but repeats it- 
self." 

Looking backward, we find Dr. Randolph, in Boston, in 
the year of 1872, persecuted and up for trial, through the 
machination of the worst trio that ever lived, a trio similar to 
the one that is now attempting to ruin the true Order. It was 
then that the prosecuting attorney, the Attorney for the State, had 
to pay this tribute to Dr. Randolph : 

"Over twenty years ago, Dr. Randolph was known to be a 
Rosicrucian, and in that period he ascended the steps of that 
mystical brotherhood, outstripping the thousands and rushing 
past hundreds of gray-beards in the mental race, until he at- 
tained the chieftainship of the true Rosicrucians in America and 
the Isles of the Seas, and finally to the supreme High Priesthood 
of the Order, and the Grand-Mastership of the combined Lodges 
of the earth likewise, reaching the double office through his ab- 
solute defiance of poverty and wealth, and persistent pursuit of 
ideas alone ! ,y 

This is from the records of the case, and it is well for my 
reader to impress this upon his mind as he reads this record, 
because it will help him to understand the work of the Black 
Brotherhoods, who, driven out of Europe, are now in this coun- 



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try, and would steal the honored name of an honored body. It 
will also be well to bear this fact in mind when passing judgment 
on the body, born in the Theosophical Society in another coun- 
try, and fostered upon the American people as the true Society. 

In 1897, Dr. Paul Tyner in an article called '"The Tem- 
ple," wrote these words: 

"Rosicruciae is spiritual, not material; a Fraternity rather 
than an Order. Its members are gathered from the East and the 
West, from among the lofty and the lowly, the learned and the 
unlearned, wherever there are free souls, and sympathetic and 
aspiring natures. It embraces all ages, races and climes, and 
reaches from the visible far into invisible realms of being. 'Si- 
lence, secrecy and unpretending good works are its characteris- 
tics, and one member may pass his life next door to another, and 
neither be aware of the bonds between them unless some stress 
of need draw the curtain aside.' The law of Silence is particu- 
larly emphasized, obedience to the injunction to 'enter unto the 
closet and shut the door' being imperative on all who would have 
access to the sources of power." 

This was published as part of the book, "The Rosicrucians ; 
Their Teachings," because it formed part of a Rosicrucian Man- 
ifesto and was authoritative. I wish to call the reader's special 
attention to the part which appears in Italics. 

About eight years ago, a man who may have been a 
student of the Theosophical Society, or of one of its members, 
came to this country, and deliberately conferred upon himself, 
not to use a harsher term, the title of Rosicrucian. He published 
under copyright of 1909, a book proporting to be Rosicrucian, 
but which is directly opposed to every doctrine of the true Rose 
Cross Order, and is, in reality, a compound of Theosophical 
teachings of German Mysticism. Bear in mind, my reader, I am 
not condemning the philosophy therein, because all men have a 
right to their philosophy, I simply call attention to the deliber- 
ate use of a name, honestly belonging to a body long established. 
In that book he makes the following statement: 



10 The Rose Cross Order 

"It is possible to live under the same roof and on terms of 
closest intimacy with an Initiate of any school, yet his secret will 
always remain hidden in his breast until his friend has reached 
the point where he can become a Brother Initiate." 

Might we not call this the "Deadly Parallel?" Is this 
simply a coincidence ? Possibly his Masters, of whom he speaks 
so much, told him to use the title, and to copy, with but slight 
changes, that which has been written and published, years before. 
It may be that it was these same Masters who told certain teach- 
ers in India, of a certain large Society, to teach boys the "un- 
speakable practices." No wonder the world in general con- 
demns all Occult Societies, for the world is not in position to 
form judgment, knowing only of the evil practices, but nothing 
of the good which is done silently by the true Order. 

But let us go a step further, on Page 516 of the same book, 
in the 1909 edition, and just on the opposite page, there appears 
this statement: 

"His very name is an embodiment of the manner and the 
means by which the present-day man is transformed into the 
Divine Superman. This symbol, 

'Christian Rosen Kreuz' 
(The) Christian Rose Cross, 
shows the end and aim of human evolution ; the road to be trav- 
eled, etc." 

In the year of 1904, or about five years before the publica- 
tion of this so-called Rosicrucian book, my book, "The Rosicru- 
cians; Their Teachings," had been published, and, beginning 
with page 187, under the title of "First Rosicrucian Manifesto" 
I give a complete exposition of Christian Rosicrucian, under the 
sub-title of "A Mystery Solved," and therein show that: 

"As an Initiate, and at variance with the established 
Church, and these pseudo-orders and imposters, he sought for 
a way to save these symbols from the curse that was sure to fall 
upon them, after a more sane age had set in; and it is a fact that 



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even to this day all orders of this day are looked upon with 
mistrust by the German nations as a whole. 

"There was a way open to accomplish this, but in order to 
do so it was necessary for him to expose these pseudo-orders, and 
give the real meaning of Alchemy, Initiation and these symbols. 
This he could not do as he had taken the oath of 'Silence' even 
before he became a neophyte. He, however, perceived another 
way to accomplish this end, and this was by giving to the world 
a radical treatise that would throw ridicule on the so-called 
Alchemists, and others of that ilk, and at the same time give 
great and 'Inner' secrets to the world in a veiled language, and in 
such a way that it would draw the people away from these im- 
posters and arouse their curosity. This he could not do under 
his own name as it was necessary to reveal some secrets which he 
had learned, and at that time the true Order was very strict; 
he, therefore, sought for a nom-de- plume, and as the Rose 
Cross were the most powerful and universally known symbols of 
that or of any other time, even as they are at the present day; 
furthermore, as both of them are symbols of Esoteric Christian- 
ity, he took the name — the "Christian Rose and Cross," and in 
order to make an individual name out of it, he changed it to 
Christian Rosencreutz, and under that name as a nom-de-plume, 
he wrote the now famous "Fama Fraternitatis." 

I presume that if this other book had been issued in 1904, 
and my book in 1909, it would have been a pure and deliberate 
steal, but as this other book was five years after the publication 
of my book, in which this mystery was first explained, it must 
have been given to this man by his Masters. Possibly these 
Masters had imbibed a little too much, and had read the mys- 
tery in the published book, but thought they had read it in the 
Astral lights. 

But this man was not satisfied with this triple act, or what- 
ever you wish to term it. He had to go a step further. 

In the year of 1908, the series of books and lessons, known 



12 The Rose Cross Order 

as Soul Science, were first started, as International Copyrights 
will show. At first, it must be admitted, this was a difficult 
proposition. But, as explained thus far, our good name having 
been deliberately taken and used to palm off goods which were 
not what they were called, we thought it best to allow the name 
Rose Cross to be in abeyance, and to use our own coined title of 
Soul Science, at least, until such time as mankind would learn 
the truth. 

Though, as stated before, the Soul Science work, being new 
to the public, it was a difficult task, but gradually the good work 
that was being accomplished through Soul Science became 
known, and it was an easy matter to reach the public with the 
work under that name. 

But early in the present year a member of the Inner Order 
sent us a marked copy of a magazine, in which he found that 
this same man had deliberately used the title as coined by our 
School, but had prefixed the word "Christian," evidently he 
thought it would protect himself against a protest of steal. 

Immediately we sent him the following letter: 
• « e 

Dear Sir: 

One of our Soul Science teachers has just mailed me a copy 
of your magazine, February issue, and has marked the second 
advertising page in the magazine. 

I, of course, know that you have taken to yourself, without 
any right or authority, legally or otherwise, the "Rosicrucian" 
title, knowing, as you must have known, that the Rose Cross Or- 
der has been founded and been teaching in America more than 
sixty (60) years, believing, that as the people learned the truth 
of the matter, results would prove to you that you had attempted 
to accomplish an impossible thing. 

"But I now find that you have also seen lit to add to goods 
which are not yours the title, of 'Soul Science.' This title was in- 
vented by myself, I used it for the first time, in my literature and 



The Rose Cross Order 13 

the Copyrighted lessons. I claim that no one ever used the title 
before I used it, and had it copyrighted. Therefore, by legal and 
divine right it is mine, and belongs to our Hierarchy. 

Of course, you have prefixed 'Christian' to it, but I refuse 
to admit that in doing so you have the right to call any teachings 
of your own 'Soul Science.' 

"Though you may not be a Rosicrucian, nevertheless, I 
cannot understand how any man, professing to teach the Occult, 
can stoop to the position of deliberately taking a title honestly 
belonging to another, and use it to label his own goods. 

"I am now taking up this matter with our Copyright At- 
torney and will try my best to learn whether there is absolutely 
no justice to be had, even from those who claim to teach Sacred 
things. 

"Very truly, 
"R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 

"Beverly Hall, Quakertown, Pa., Feb .4, 1916." 
# # # 

Needless to say, no reply was received from this man, and 
I have not been able to learn as to whether he still continues to 
deliberately deceive his followers. 

Thus, we have considered two of these Orders, which we 
call clandestine, but there are several others which need our 
careful consideration, because, considering all that Dr. Ran- 
dolph suffered) and what the U. S .Prosecuting Attorney said 
of him, it is necessary that we should have a complete record. 

We now have what may be considered the most deceiving 
attempt to give to the people, under the name of Rosicrucianism, 
that which is not Rosicrucian, made within the last year, by peo- 
ple from New York City, who claim to have authority from the 
Rose Cross Order, whose headquarters are in Paris. 

A lengthy article appeared in the "Pittsburgh Sun," dated 
Jan. 21st, 1916. We immediately wrote to the editor of the 
paper, sending him booklets in proof of our statements, but have 
never had a reply from him. 



|4 The Rose Cross Order 

The booklets mailed were several of which were issued in 
1908, and some of later date. A copy of "The Rosicrucians ; 
Their Teachings" was also mailed to the Editor . 

The folowing letter is self-explanatory, and gives in de- 
tail the stand taken by this Fraternity : 

• # * 

Editor "The Pittsburgh Sun," Pittsburgh, Pa. 

My Dear Sir: — In your issue of "The Pittsburgh Sun" of 
Jan. 21st, I believe, there appeared an article entitled "Rosicru- 
cians Trace Order to Thutmose III," which is so absolutely 
false that it cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged. 

Under separate cover, I mail you booklets, these are marked 
"Exhibit A," "Exhibit B" and "Exhibit C." I will call your 
attention to these as I proceed. 

The statement that "after approximately 3,500 years, has 
just taken form in Pennsylvania state lodge of the Order, with 
headquarters in Pittsburgh" is a statement that is without foun- 
dation and with not a single shred of truth. 

If you will give the booklet "Exhibit A" but a hurried 
reading, you will find that the first Grand Lodge of the Rose 
Cross was founded in America, at San Francisco, in Nov., 1861. 
(Page 13, Exhibit A) and that in the same year, a San Fran- 
cisco citizen, recognized Randolph as a Rosicrucian and voiced 
his sentiments in a Boston, Mass., newspaper (see Page 7, Ex- 
hibit A). 

On page 13 of "Exhibit A" you will find the line of suc- 
cession of the Rosicrucian Order in America. Propaganda be- 
gun in 1857. First Supreme Grand Lodge San Francisco, Cal., 
Nov. 5th, 1861. Second Grand Lodge, Boston, Mass., 1871. 
Third Grand Lodge formed at San Francisco, Cal., 1874. And 
the fourth and last Grand Lodge formed at Philadelphia in 1895. 

At several periods it was found necessary for the Grand 
Lodge to dissolve on account of treason in its ranks, just as 
there is treason at the present time, though not affecting the 
Grand Lodge. 



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From the article in your issue of date given, it would ap- 
pear, that in order to justify her conduct, Mrs. Hogin would 
lead the world, and more especially her followers, to believe 
that there had been no Rosicrucian Order in America prior to 
1915, but published and Copyrighted books prove that the 
Order has been in existence, and continually working, for more 
than 60 years, and at this time it is working in every state of 
the Union, in its original states and under its original Charter, 
and that any body of men attempting to start another Order, and 
giving out the statements of this new body, founded within a 
year, as is admitted in the article, must be clandestine. * 

A further proof of the falsity of the statement that the 
Rosicrucian Order has but just been founded in America, is the 
fact that more than four years ago the Fraternity held a Grand 
Conclave, and that members now living in Pittsburgh were 
present and received the Rites of the Fraternity and signed their 
names as members upon the face of the original Charter of the 
Order. 

Should it be desirable or necessary, I can refer you to these 
members and of this Conclave there are in existence photo- 
graphic evidence of both the meeting place, and the Delegates, 
of members present from many states of the Union, including 
California, the original State, and even from Canada. 

We challenge anyone to show any books, manuscripts or 
Charters that were issued before Randolph started this Order 
in America. We further challenge any one in this country to 
show any books, bearing the Rosicrucian title, or pretending to 
be Rosicrucian works, even as far back as twenty years, which 
did net eminate directly from the body first founded in America 
more than sixty years ago. 

The booklet "Exhibit A" was issued and Copyrighted in 
1908, which is seven years ago. Does this indicate, that a book 



*See Exhibit C at end of Notes. 



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which gives full details of an Order, then in existence, had actu- 
ally no existence then, and has just been started in this country 
by an entirely different set of people, who have no authority from 
this original body. 

The booklet "Exhibit B," which is mailed to you, was is- 
sued eleven year ago. This gives more details as to the teach- 
ings of the Fraternity, and is mailed to you merely as a proof of 
the work done in America many years before this clandestine 
body is organized. 

"Exhibit C," a text book of the Fraternity, was first issued 
in 1905, and is now in its second edition. The first edition was 
practically all sold before the end of 1906 and the new edition 
prepared. 

A hurried glance through this book will give you the Man- 
ifestoes just as they were issued by the Order since its founda- 
tion. These manifestoes were issued and distributed during the 
years as given in the book, and utterly disprove that there has 
been no Rosicrucian Order in America until 1915. 

It is true that the Order which Mrs. Hogin and her co- 
workers are attempting to organize had no existence, but, accord- 
ing to the Laws of most States, it is utterly illegal for them to 
use a name of an Order, or a Society, which is already in ex- 
istence, and according to these Laws such an attempt is clearly an 
illegal act. 

I challenge Mrs. Hogin or any of her Co-workers to show 
any book or paper, by any of her co-workers, and printed prior 
to my book "The Rosicrucians ; Their Teachings" or "Brother 
of the Third Degree," by Garver, which mentions the fact that 
Napoleon had anything to do with the Order, and I further 
challenge them to show any book, or paper, showing copyright 
prior to the publication of my books, which mention Lord Bulwer 
Lytton in like connection. 

I do not desire to play on empty words, the only proof that 
can stand before God and men, or before Courts of Law, are the 



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books and papers in actual print, bearing Copyright stamp of the 

year issued, and to be found in the Library of Congress. 

I regret that this letter to you has become a necessity, but 

it is a question in my mind whether it is not as great a crime to 

allow a wrong to go unexposed as it is to commit the crime, 

especially when such a wrong is liable to lead thousands into 

error. 

Very truly yours, 

R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 

"Beverly Hall," 

Quakertown, Pa., 

Jan. 28th, 1916. 

• * * 

At the same time, a copy of the letter mailed to "The Pitts- 
burgh Sun," together with the following letter, was mailed to 

the Secretary of this so-called Rose Cross Order : 
• •**•• 

Thor Kiimalehto, New York City, N. Y. 

Dear Sir: — It was on March 11th, 1915, that I had a letter 
from you anent the Rosicrucian Order, and at that time I an- 
swered you fully, giving you the necessary information to prove 
to you that, legally and otherwise, the Rose Cross Order has 
existed in America for more than 60 years and for that very rea- 
son, no other Order by that name could be instituted in America 
legally. 

You ansv/ered me and stated that you were placing the mat- 
ter before your Chief "across the water," but since then I have 
not heard from you. 

Naturally, you must be aware, that any charter from 
"across the water" has no more authority here than a charter 
from us would have in any foreign country where the Rose Cross 
Order existed previously. That is a natural, reasonable, com- 
mon sense view, and is legally true. 

I have now before me your magazine in which you pro- 



18 The Rose Cross Order 

pose the "Ancient and Mystical" Order Rose Crusis and I hold 
that the use of the words "Ancient and Mystical" will not (le- 
gally or otherwise) cover the issue, for it has been held by the 
United States Courts, that where an Order of a given name had 
been instituted, another of same name, or a name similar enough 
to it that would be likely to confuse the ordinary person, could 
not be instituted legally and was held as clandestine and fraud- 
ulent. I hold that the use of the name "Rose Crusis" is con- 
fusing to the ordinary mind. 

But this is not what I want to especially place before you, 
but the absolutely untruthful statements given out by a Mrs. 
Hogin to a Pittsburgh newspaper, and which I have taken full 
steps to refute. 

I herewith inclose a copy of my letter to this Pittsburgh 
Newspaper and I believe this needs no further explanation, ex- 
cept to say, that these facts had already been placed before you 
nearly one year ago, and when all these documents are placed 
before the American people, possibly before the U. S. Courts, 
the public will draw its own conclusions. 

Moreover copies of all these letters, including this one, will 
be placed before all of our own people, together with the in- 
closed letter, which will be mailed to everyone of our thousands 
of correspondents throughout the world. 

When a man steals our good name, or our goods, we call 
him a common thief, but what is the man who sees that we have 
made a success of a work under a given name and who delib- 
erately and knowingly takes that name and uses it to label his 
own goods, and especially that which concerns the most sacred 
things known to man — Spiritual things ? 
Yours truly, 

R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 

"Beverly Hall," 

Quakertown, Pa., 
Jan. 28th, 1916. 



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Letters by the Ambassador-General of the Order for France, 
were at once written to the head of the Rose Cross Order in 
France, answers were received from the Grand Master there, 
stating that this body had no real authority, and that the so- 
called Degrees could not be had from the University of Paris 
except by a very few, he pronounced it a fake, pure and simple. 

These letters are on file at Headquarters and may be seen 
by any one in authority. 

Letters written by the Ambassador-General for Spain 
brought the same reply. That no such Order existed there. 

The question was then taken up with England, only to 
receive a reply stating that the authorized Body in England had 
granted no authority to these people. 

All of these letters are on file at Headquarters, and were 
carefully considered by the Executive Council of the Order at 
the 68th Annual Convocation. 

In the last issue of the magazine published by these people 
they made the following statement : 



"Dr. Clymer operates the Philosophical Publishing Co., 
of Allentown, Pa., and sells reprints of some so-called "Rosi- 
crucian Books," written by one Dr. P. B. Randolph, who never 
had either the right or the privilege of writing for publication 
any Rosicrucian secrets. In fact, Dr. Randolph was looked 
upon with displeasure and disdain by the A. M. O. R. C. in 
France, because of many acts — principally the selling of so- 
called 'secrets' which were no secrets at all." 



First of all, it is a deliberate falsehood to say that I ever 
reprinted, or offered for sale, a reprinted book by Dr. Randolph. 
This statement is on a par with every other statement made by 
these people, and, judging from letters I have in my possession, 
I am led to believe that all such statements were with the delib- 
erate intention to deceive. 



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I should be only too glad to republish the books by Dr. 
Randolph, for I freely admit over my own signature, that I 
consider his books the greatest ever written by any man, and 
which, if faithfully followed, would save humanity much of its 
suffering. However, all these books are controlled and sold by 
Mrs. Randolph. 

He also mentions a book of 49 degrees which we published 
and sold. This is true, and when I finished this book, and sent 
it to the students who had ordered it, it was one of the proudest 
moments of my life, because I knew it would do a vast amount 
of good. 

But, I must say, the hardest moment of my life was when 
I learned that one who had taken our most sacred obligation, had 
deliberately broken his vow, and entered into the work with the 
Editor of the magazine in question. Traitors are the bane of 
civilization, but as a rule they get their just reward for being 
such. 

Another statement made, which is also a deliberate false- 
hood, is: "After Randolph's death, Clymer — as a printing ex- 
pert — undertook to reprint and resell the old books of Randolph, 
and so successful was he in promoting Randolph's plans for 
some sort of a Rosicrucian Fraternity (whose 'Grand Lodge' 
disbanded a number of times) that he wrote several books of 
his own concoction." 

That I consider the most contemptible statement printed in 
the said magazine, although there are many others. As before 
stated, I never printed, or reprinted a single book by Dr. Ran- 
dolph, though I would be very proud had I been able to do so. I 
did write books of my own, some forty of them, whether or not 
they are concoctions I will be glad to have others judge, but I 
wish to say here and now, that practically every statement made 
by this man is a deliberate falsehood, and have come to the con- 
clusion that they were made with the intention of concealing his 



The Rose Cross Order 21 

own act, in deliberately taking a name that had been honorably 
used in America for more than sixty years. 

But let us consider the statements made by this Editor in 
his magazine, and compare them with a statement, or two, made 
in his official publication number two. 



On page (x) of this booklet, after making several other 
statement, he says: "This is why the attempts of Dr. Randolph 
and one or more other Rosicrucians of foreign initiation to 
establish the Order in this country within the past hundred 
years have always failed. The necessary papers, co-operation 
and privileges cculd not be secured, even regardless of the fact 
that Dr. Randolph was one of the foremost men of the order who 
ever lived in this country and was at one time Grand Master of 
the R. C. Lodge in France, which was attended by one of the Na- 
poleons." 



Just consider that statement and compare it with the one 
made in the magazine, which has been quoted. 

In the magazine Dr. Randolph was in disrepute, of no ac- 
count, and was held persona non grata by the brethren in France. 
But in the official booklet, knowing that he could not put Dr. 
Randolph in the background, admits that he had been Amer- 
ica's foremost Rosicrucian, and a Grand Master in France, and, 
yet, his books were not Rosicrucian books, and of no account. 

"Ye gods and little men" how Blacks do reason. Truly 
theirs is the logic of the Masters (sic). 

But that is not all, let us go a step further in this sublime 
new system of reasoning. 

In the same booklet, but on page (viii), this man says: 



"It (The Rosicrucian Order) has naught to do with any 
religious sect but vests its power in God and in the Grand Mas- 
ter." 



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And there you are, dangerous admissions, every one of them. 
First of all, All power is vested in God and the Grand Master. 
Now then, God not being present, it follows that all power is 
vested in the Grand Master. As a consequence of this, the 
Grand Master, possessing all power, is not responsible to any 
man nor to any member. That is fact number one, and boldly 
stated by Mr. Lewis. 

Fact number two is of greater importance. That is, Dr. 
Randolph was, on the admission of Mr. Lewis, the greatest 
Rosicrucian America ever had. Moreover, and never forget this, 
Dr. Randolph was a Grand Master in France, as a Grand Master 
he had all power, and did not need any necessary papers. Co- 
operation or privileges, for all these were vested in him. Mr. 
Lewis admits all this. 

Fact number three. Clymer, as a printing expert, went 
after the work strong and follows Dr. Randolph, and — if you 
will excuse the slang, there you are. Who is the fakir ? 

But these facts are true in the main. Dr. Randolph was 
the Grand Master. As a Grand Master he had all-power. He 
did not care to remain in France, and as a Grand Master, he 
appointed his Successor for France, and he left for America. 

In America, there being no Rose Cross Order, he possessed 
his power as a Grand Master, and he started the work. That 
work continued during his life, and is still progressing, as the 
68th Convocation, held in June of the present year at Beverly 
Hall, proves, and we say, in spite of all contradiction, that the 
body founded by Dr. Randolph is the true Rose Cross Order, 
and all men using that title in order to palm off their teachings 
are simply clandestine. 

And, bear this in mind, I have as authority, the speech made 
by the Attorney in the case of Dr. Randolph, where he freely 
admits that Dr. Randolph had been a Rosicrusian and Grand 



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Master of the Order of the world for twenty years prior to that 
date, which was 1872, or date of his Rosicrucianism 1852, 
though we date only from 1858. 

Thus we have dealt with the facts according to the state- 
ments of those who have, first of all, defamed Dr. Randolph, and 
then, secondly, have stolen his works and his honored title. 

While the Conclave of the 68th Convocation of the Rose 
Cross Order was still in session, the following letter was re- 
ceived : 



June 20, 1916. 
Mr. R. S. Clymer, Quakertown, Pa. 

Dear Sir: — This is to infrom you that since you have not 
seen fit to take to Court, as you indicated you would do, the 
matter of your legitimacy and the illegitimacy of our Order, but 
prefer to write libellous and incriminating letters, we will take 
the mater up with the Federal Government, through the Post 
Office Inspectors, unless you immediately cease writing such 
letters and making such charges. 

Your representative, a Secretary in Buffalo, N. Y., has 
written letters in your behalf which no sane business man would 
permit to pass through the mails. They not only libel and 
blacken members and officers of our Order, but they make 
charges and statements which will cause considerable trouble 
for you and for her in any Court. Her magazine articles, too, 
are false in many statements. 

Therefore, I advisedly write to warn you that we are now 
prepared with sufficient documentary evidence to proceed legally 
and will do so unless you withdraw your false statements, such 
as you made to the New York World Editor and others who 
have investigated and found our statements correct and yours 
not only wrong but libelous and serious in a legal sense. 

If your charges against us were true in any degree you 
would have been warranted to take the matter into Court as vou 



24 The Rose Cross Order 

threatened. But you failed to do so when we were ready. 
(Signed) H. SPENCER LEWIS. 

The following answer was immediately mailed : 



Executive Council 68th Convocation 

Quakertown, Pa., June 22nd, 1916. 
Rose Cross Order, "Beverly Hall," 
H. Spencer Lewis, New York City, N. Y. 

Dear Sir: — Your letter of the 20th inst. has been received 
by Dr. Clymer and was immediately placed before the Council 
for careful consideration. 

We, including Dr. Clymer, shall be highly pleased to have 
you place the entire matter before the Federal Government, 
through the Post Office Department, as you suggest. 

We assure you that copies of all letters written from Head- 
quarters will be ready to be placed before the Postal Department 
for inspection, moreover, it might give us the opportunity to 
place before that Department the letters written to Dr. Clymer 
and others, as well as the absolutely false letters written by your 
Mr. Saunders. Furthermore, it would be a pleasure to place 
before that department the letters now in our possession from 
the Police Department of Spain as regards the school from which 
you claim to hold papers, as well as letters from Headquarters 
in France and England. We welcome such an opportunity. 

As to Mrs. Morey, we believe that she is amply able to take 
care of herself, and believe that she knows what she is talking 
and writing about. No doubt most of her sisters of the Eastern 
Star who have known her for years, would be willing to agree to 
this, for, bear in mind, she was a student years ago, even when 
"Modern Miracle" was published in New York City. 

Any evidence you may have you are at perfect liberty to 
use at any and all times. We shall be ready to back up every 
assertion that we make, moreover, we shall direct Dr. Clymer to 
answer all letters honestly and to the best of his knowledge, and 



The Rose Cross Order 25 

we shall certainly instruct him to continue to quote your own 
writings in defending Dr. Randolph and his work cf 60 years 
ago. 

We are, however, ready to "back-up" any statements that 
Dr. Clymer may have made to the "New York World" and 
would instruct him to repeat such statements should the neces- 
sity arise at any time in the future. 

The New York World has been invited to send reporters or 
representatives here at any time during the session of the Order, 
for we feel that we have nothing to fear from a careful investi- 
gation, but have much to gain. 

Your letter has been considered by the "Executive Coun- 
cil" now in session and is signed by the members of this Session 
of the Council. Countersigned by all the members present. The 
copy of signatures is at the command of any Government official. 

(Signed) DR. HENRY J. FRANK, 

Chairman. 



This letter was signed by the members present. See the 
"Roll of Honor" as it appears in the book "Fundamental Law, 
or The 68th Convocation." 

Needless to say, no further letters were received from Mr. 
Lewis, but the Executive Council was not satisfied with simply 
mailing this answer to Mr. Lewis, but in Executive Session, 
passed the following: 



The Executive Council of the 68th Convocation, held June 
22nd, 1916, at Beverly Hall,m oved that Dr .Frank act as Chair- 
man, motion seconded by Mr. Peterman. 

The first subject to be considerad — a letter received from H. 
Spencer Lewis, June 20th, 1916. Letter read. Moved that Dr. 
Clymer answer same at once. 

The answer to foregoing letter was read in our presence 
and we immediately advised Dr. Clymer to forward same by 
first mail, a copy of which is to be placed on file at Headquar- 
ters. 



<T1 III It*— »— — «—— — — — i i — -- 

26 The Rose Cross Order 

Dr. Henderson moved that all Officers and those present 
place their signatures at the bottom of this letter. This was done. 

Mr. Ackley moved that a copy of the letter and reply to 
same be sent to the "New York World." This was done. 

It was also moved that a copy of the Lewis letter and the 
reply be mailed to the Post Office Inspector of New York. This 
was done. 

Dr. Henderson moved that the copy of the former letter 
written to the "New York World" be read to the Council. This 
was done. Letter was endorsed by the Council. 

Extracts from Lewis booklet was then read and carefully 
considered, same conclusions reached as given in the forepart 
of the Introduction to this book. 

Mr. Ackley moved that any further correspondence which 
comes to Dr. Clymer relative to the subject matter, after this 
meeting, shall be handled by Dr. Clymer at his own discretion. 

Signed and sealed by the Officers of the Council and those 
present. 



The members of the Council felt that, being members of the 
true Order which has been in existence for nearly seventy (70) 
years, they had nothing to fear and for this reason mailed copy 
of Lewis letter and copy of the reply to the "New York World" 
and to the Post Office Department at New York City. 

Possibly the most noteworthy attempt to deliberately take 
that which belongs to another, and claim it as their own, was 
made in the April number of the so-called "Rosae Cruris" mag- 
aizne in 1916. 

In this number of the magazine is shown a photograph of 
one William B. Hodby, and in the write-up following the in- 
sertion, it is stated that he is the Grand Master, Pennsylvania 
Jurisdiction Lieut. Commander "Knights of the Rose Cross." 

The Degree "Knights of the Rose Cross" is the Official 
Degree of the "Order of the Illuminati." This Order has been 



The Rose Cross Order 27 

working in America for more than 18 years, in its present form. 
We filed in the U. S. Patent Office, Copyright Department, 
February 28th, 1913, the following emblem, which, as will be 
seen, is the official emblem of the Order. 



c*«^ 




INNER CIRCLE 

TEMPLE ONLLUMiNATI 



The reason for doing this was because we had found that 
several people had already taken and were using titles and 
terms, which we had made famous through our books, therefore, 
we concluded that it would be best to protect these emblems and 
titles of the degrees. The one given above, being one of these. 

But it seems that even the registration of such emblems and 
titles does not protect them, from those who care nothing for 
honor, nothing for Law, either Divine or Natural. 

However, many of these people forget that in the State of 
Pennsylvania, there is a Law of the Statute books, which recog- 
nizes as the legal body, any order of a given name, which has 
been established for ten or more years prior to the passage of 
such a Law. 

However, in order that no injustice be done to any one in 
the publication of this book, the following letter on the official 
stationery of the "Royal Fraternity Association, Inc.," was 
written to Mr. Hodby : 



"Beverly Hall," Quakertown, Pa., July 31st, 1916. 
Mr. William B. Hodby, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Dear Sir:— In "The American Rosae Crusis" magazine of 



28 The Rose Cross Order 

April, 1916, your photo is shown, stating that you are the Lieut. 
Commander "Knights of the Rose Cross." 

Are you aware of the fact that the "Knights of the Rose 
Cross" dates back far enough to be covered under the Laws of 
the State of Pennsylvania governing Secret Organizations, and 
that the emblems or the Order, including the name, was register- 
ed in the U. S. Patent Office, Copyright Department, in 1913 ?" 

I should be very glad to hear from you as this information 
is to appear in certain papers. 

Very truly yours, 

R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 



We regret to say that up to the date that this MS. went to 
press no answer had been received from Mr. Hodby and we will 
therefore allow our readers to draw their own conclusions. 

But a few brief words need be said, then we shall rest our 
case. 

Besides the cases mentioned, there is at the present time, in 
the city of San Francisco, a woman who has founded a Rosi- 
crucian Order of her own. She is Pastor of a Church called 
the "New Civilization Church," but if the new civilization is to 
be presided over by people of this class, then God save the new 
civilization. 

In Washington, D. C, there is another lady, one who, 
through her work, became very prominent a few years ago. She 
is working a Societas Rosicrucis, which is from a so-called 
Plummer school. Needless to say, this school has no more au- 
thority than any of these other schools, and we boldly say for 
the protection of the true seeker, that not one of these schools 
can teach the the true Rosicrucian Philosophy. 

We now come to the Degree or Order of Melchizadek. Since 
we have undertaken this work we have been informed that a 
man by the name of Raleigh, who became intoxicated in the 
home of one of his friends, while in Chicago, is traveling the 



The Rose Cross Order 29 

country professing to be a Master and claiming the right to 
confer the title of member of the Order of Melchizadek. In 
connection with this we wish to state, and also to have it placed 
on record, that the title of "Priest of Melchizadek" belongs 
only to the Initiated members of the Inner Circle of the Coun- 
cil, or Order of the Magi, and that no one has a right to teach, 
or to confer this Degree, except the Grand Council in Convoca- 
tion convened, and this Order is under authority of the Royal 
Fraternity Association, Incorporated, for its protection against 
the black brotherhood. 

A word as to the Black Brotherhood and their organization 
and work. "In the Mysteries of Myra" a fairly good idea is 
given of their methods, and the sincere student finds much of 
truth therein, but much more to smile at. 

For instance, Mr. Carringtcn is said to be an authority on 
things psychic and magic, but think of his arguments. For 
instance, in the first installment of the story we find that the 
Black Brotherhood just about succeeds in "getting her" through 
their All-powerful Evil Magic, but they miss it. But think of 
the second installment. In that the author admits the total un- 
worthiness of this Black Magic, because, instead of using the 
evil forces against the pure girl, they use poison balloons. Lord 
save us ! Think of a powerful band of degenerates, using pow- 
erful Magic, but whose Magic, is so weak that they must resort to 
poisonous gases, evidently a method from the armies across the 
seas. 

Then in the second installment, we have more of the dia- 
bolical Magic, but again their ceremonials are too weak, and 
they resort to a flower they have poisoned, but are foiled again. 

In another installment, we have the wonderful magic of 
getting rid of an enemy by dynamite, and by the knife. Truly 
these are wonderful men, wonderfully made, and the author 
thereof is a wonderful writer, but one who neither understands 
White Magic or Black Magic, but who does understand human 



30 The Rose Cross Order 

nature enough to know how to gather in the dollars, by throwing 
an illogical, unreasonable and totally untrue mess at the people. 

The fact remains that the members of the Black cults are 
men who, through unspeakable vices have degenerated to such 
an extent that they cannot think of anything healthy or good, 
and their thoughts and acts are as they are — degenerate and 
loathsome. 

And the antidote for these evil influences. Ah! these are 
simple. A healthy body, a clean mind, and a good heart. Have 
these, and you need not fear the Black Magician, the impossible 
story of Carrington, nor all his imps of satan. 

And how shall you know the Black Brotherhoods? That is 
easy, when you see a man or a woman wearing the triangle with 
the two points up, then you have a member of the Blacks. The 
two points represent the earth, the one point the Spirit. To see 
the triangle worn with the two points up, means that man has 
steeped his soul in the earth, that he has perverted his forces, 
and degeneration has taken place. 

Do not take my word for this, look up the old Masters, such 
a Levi and others, and you will known. 

R. SWINBURNE CLYMER. 

"Beverly Hall," 

Quakertown, Pa., 
July 15th, 1916. 

By order of the Executive Council of the Rose Cross Order 
at the 68th Convocation. 



PART ONE 

HOW IT CAME ABOUT— INTRODUCTORY. 

All the world has heard of P. B. Randolph, the celebrated 
subject of the subjoined brief sketch; but all the world does not 
really and truly know the man! and save as facts and thoughts 
gleaned from his writings posted the people, perhaps they never 
would have known him but for the extraordinary occurrences 
wiiich culminated in his arrest, and afforded a fine opportunity 
for pen-drivers to ventilate their cheap and lean wit and humor. 
The case is quite extraordinary; for a man is arrested and jailed 
like a common felon, not for what he did say, do and write: 
but for what he did not say, do and write I It is not the gross- 
ness or enormity of a charge brought against a defendant which 
does the damage to his name and repute, but those that are 
proven. Remember this as you read this curious sketch of a 
curious man's life. 

The materials of this brochure are culled from various 
sources: the biographical part of it was copied from Mr. Ran- 
dolph's own manuscripts, and portions from published sketches 
of his career that have appeared from time to time in various 
journals of the country. 

The whole tale of his life is truthful, and its moral is, that 
genius has a rough road to travel, as well now as in the days of 
poor Dick Savage, Cornelius Agrippa, Crichton, and our own 
Edgar A. Poe, — men to whom, in very many respects, P. B. 
Randolph bears a very striking mental likeness. 

As, on Sunday, Feb. 25th, 1872, the accused man stood 
fretting behind the dungeon bars, — to which, for private ends, 
not the cause of public morals, he had been consigned; as he 
stood there friendless, unvisited by a single living human being, 
— of the thousands who knew it, and hundreds whom in better 
days he had benefited, and fool-like! thought they'd remember 
him in the dark days; proving again that this learned Theban 



32 The Rose Cross Order 

had not yet developed common sense, else had he known that 
injuries are graved in steel; benefits written in running sand! 
for if you harm a person he is sure never to forget it ; if you do 
him a kindness the memory thereof lasts just as long as does the 
hole you punch in the water with your finger — after you take 
your finger out! — as he stood there behind the thick round iron 
bars, vainly endeavoring to allay with his wet tongue, the keen 
anguish of his frozen lips — an "accident" that happened to him 
in one of the two cells he occupied during the time of his im- 
prisonment; an imprisonment that would have been very much 
shortened, but for the absence from Boston of "Everybody's 
Friend," one of the best men who ever breathed, — Lorenzo D. 
Grosvenor, the reformed Shaker, — who was unfortunately for 
Randolph, absent in New Hampshire, whither he had gone to 
perform the last sad, burial office of a departed friend, — had 
that good man have been within call, Randolph had not been 
imprisoned an hour, nor compelled to part with the last dollar 
he owned on earth. 

Well, the people in and of the prison were curious to know 
why the "Learned Pundit," as he was called, was there, and 
one of them asked, — through the bars — what was the nature of 
the offence for which he was there. Being of a veiy nervous, 
sensitive make-up, suffering keenly, and to a degree not appreci- 
able by men of coarser mould, — almost longing for death, — he 
concluded that to talk and tell somewhat of the story of his life 
would, perhaps, distract his attention from his position and 
relieve the dreadful pressure, and maybe keep at bay the demon 
of madness then fiercely tugging at his heartstrings and battering 
at his brain. So he answered and said: — 

I have loved not wisely but too muchly; and my father did 
so before me! For this inherited bias I have suffered and paid 
extremely dear. Yet were may career to be run again I would 
not have it different; save in that I should follow the counsel of 
an Oriental friend of mine, who said at parting, "O Genius, 
Genius, beware of the Beasts !" Now, if I had my life to live over, 
I should never cease to cultivate affection, but would be mighty 
careful what and whom I lavished it upon, — that's all ! 

In the early part of my life, I used to cry — for milk, mainly. 
After that, I wanted cream, but got only sour whey, — as a general 
thing. In the middle of life I learned to moan, and now in the 



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twilight I'm trying to laugh; but it is hard to do so, just now! 
Fame and slander, what "they say," are, after all, of but little 
account to a man, if his heart is true ! Mine is/ Place, position, 
wealth, are good in their way, but will not satisfy any man 
alone. We have only ourselves to judge in the final issue, and 
if we feel that we've done the best we could, it is all well, and we 
need not fear the rough music of scandalous tongues. This is 
just as I feel as I begin to give you this rapid sketch of my 
curious career. 

Of my mother I know little; of my father much less. I 
love her memory, but never cared a single straw for him. Her 
name was Flora. She had been the wife of two husbands. My 
recollections of her are confined to a flogging she gave me for 
stealing sweetmeats, — a weakness born within me, and of which 
I never have been cured, and never expect to be, although the 
kinds have not always been the same; for in youth I loved cakes, 
candies and preserves; since then the animated kind, albeit I 
never committed a crime for love or anything else, — and never 
degraded an innocent member of my mother's sex. 

My earliest recollections are of the Bellevue almshouse, 
New York city, in or about the year of the great cholera, 1832, 
I think, to which place my mother was sent with the small-pox 
from her residence down town. Such was the law, — a wise one 
too. I went with her, — a wee little bit of a man. The disease 
blinded her, and one day she died, but not until my strange 
inner life had already begun. That life I have portrayed in 
several of my books, — "Dhoula Bel" especially; also in "Love, 
The Master Passion," "Dealings with the Dead," "After Death, 
or the Disembodiment of man," in "Soul World," "Waa 
Oilman," "Ravalette," "The Rosicrucian's Story,"— above all, 
in "Casca Llanna," especially my affectional life and experience, 
a very bitter one, — and others ; wherefore it need not be repeated 
here. I owe my successes, — mental, — to my conglomerate blood; 
my troubles and poverty to the same source, for I never had but 
few true friends ; never was loved for myself alone ; yet have been 
an unwavering friend to others, and have loved to madness all 
my life long ! It was my nature, and there was a natural reason 
for it, which will appear as this sketch advances. My mother 
was once a beautiful sang melee of various strains of blood. She 
had some Madagascan, French, Spanish, Indian and Oriental in 



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her, all of which I have, and several others besides, as English, 
Celtic, Cymrian, Teutonic and Moorish, all within a period of 
two hundred and eighty years, — at least so says the Herald's 
college of England, — for several of these conspired to form the 
rather strange and cranky breed of men known as the Randolphs 
on one side of my line, — how near the truth I do not know, 
neither do I care, further than to regret the facts ; because not a 
great sinner myself, yet I have suffered more than fifty male- 
factors' deaths; whence I conclude three things: that the sins of 
the fathers are visited upon the children; that mine must have 
been great rascals; and that I have fully paid their debt and my 
own to boot, since when, on the eighth day of October, 1825, (2) 
in the house number seventy Canal street, New York City, near 
the Hudson River, Flora Beverly Randolph gave me to sorrow 
and the world. 

When she went to Heaven, my half-sister Harriet took me 
to bring up. Out of her hands I passed into those of a ci-devant 
English actress, of Simpson's Park Theatre, New York, named 
Harriet Jennings, nee Whitehead, and those of her husband — on 
the Europeean plan! — George Jennings, a high toned sporting 
character, gambler and so forth. Here I learned the art of begging 
for I had to take my basket and solicit cold victuals from door to 
door to maintain the family larder, while he drove her to the 
sale of her charms to supply the domestic exchequer. Thus at 
less than ten years old I had become proficient in knowledge of 
the shady side of human nature, which had better have been 
postponed to a riper and steadier period of life. Up to my 
fifteenth year I was cuffed and kicked about the world ; from my 
fifteenth year to the present time, the pastime has been varied, — 
that is, I have been kicked and cuffed; and I fully understand 
what is meant by "grin and bear it." Sometimes I have kicked 
back, and then got bruised all the more for doing so. 

I am behind these prison-bars on a charge of being an incit- 
er to free love, and the whole town is agog because they think 
they have brought "the Learned Pundit" to bay. Were the fight 
on my side, wholly my own, little would I care. But it so happens 
that there's a pretty girl in my heart, and I must so conduct the 
battle that she shall not come to grief and want and dire tribu- 
lation. "Ah!" said the questioner, "then you really love that 
pretty little girl ! I'd like to see the female capable of engaging 



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all such a soul as yours." — "Well, sir, you can; here she is," — 
showing the photograph of a girl of fifteen. "This girl is my 
daughter, sir, and I'm proud of her; and she is of her father!" — 
"Ah! Ah!" 

Well, up to my fifteenth year I had attended school less than 
a year. In my sixteenth year I was a sailor boy: then I went part 
of one winter to school to a Mr. Dodge, in Portland, Maine, and 
that completed all the outside schooling I ever had, — but then 
I have had a deal of underside, to^-side and inside schooling, 
until now they say I'm a very learned man — just as if all the 
languages on earth, all the mathematics, ologies, and pathies 
combined can really educate a man! 

In my seventeenth year I got religion at a revival meeting 
under the hill, and lost it that same night near the gun-house, 
on top of the hill; for a pretty girl whom I went home with told 
me when we reached that locality that "if I was going to be a 
spooney I must look out for another gal, for she couldn't stand 
any sich nonsense as that!" hence when I got up the hill as far 
as the gun-house, my load, like Christian's, fell off, — and stayed 
off for a long time, — and I lifted up my voice and said, "Susifo, 
I'll be dod darned if you aint better'n any religion I know any- 
thing about! — and I'm going to let it slide," and it slid. What 
I said to that pure, sweet girl, — now in heaven, — I still believe 
in so far as any religion I have carefully watched the workings of 
is concerned. Eut I anticipate. 

Of course during my sailor life, which lasted from my fif- 
teenth to my twentieth year, I had but little female society, for 
the most part of those I saw in the various parts of the world 
were professed ladies, lighto' love. And so, too, I early learned 
the meaning of the term "Free Love." 

In those early days, such women hid themselves by day, 
and called their trade by its proper name. But since they died, 
a new lot have sprung up in the land, who shine on Public 
Rostra, and elevate their calling into a divine art, and tran- 
scendentally moral institution. So great a difference has time 
wrought since then, and so marked a change is there between 
this and that, and now znd.then! 

As I proved a true son of Adam at the gun-house, and gave 
up Eden for Paradise, just as the old man did before me, if the 



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genesic tale be true, — so have I tried to be in my way, an honest 
way, ever since. 

I was born in love, of a loving mother, and what she felt, 
that have I lived, because I am the exact living counterpart of her 
feelings, intense passions, volcanic, fiery, scoriae; her love, 
higher than heaven, deeper than death; her agony, terrible as a 
thousand racks! her hope and trust, fervent, enduring, solid as 
steel, unbreakable as the lightning, which blazes in the sky ! her 
loneliness, I have been a hermit all my days, even in the midst 
of men; in a word, I am the exact expression of that woman's 
states of body, emotion, mind, soul, longings, spirit, aspirations, 
when she took in charge the incarnation of the soul of him now 
chafing behind these prison- bars. 

My peculiar characteristics have usually been attributed to 
a strain of blood not a drop of which flows in my veins (3) for 
I, being tawny of hue, am taken for a half-breef Indian, Lascar, 
East India man, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, and I know not 
what else. The facts are that on one side directly, the blood of 
the Randolphs bounds, — a fiery torrent, along my veins; Cau- 
casian, aboriginal, and the darker strain mingling therewith is 
the royal blood, fresh from the veins of Queen of Madagascar. 
Not a drop of continental African, or pure negro blood runs 
through me. Not that it were a disgrace were it so, but truth 
is truth. 

Perhaps people who know aught of ethnology will now see 
why I am what I am. From birth I breathed a rich, voluptuous 
atmosphere, because I breathed my mother's sphere, and drank in 
love from her bosom. I was incarnate love, and my thoughts ever 
ran in that direction. Is it any marvel then that my entire soul 
was given up to studies of the master passion of human kind? 
or that I wrote book after book on love, which the world has long 
since declared to be nearly matchless, so far as the treatment of 
that grand theme is concerned? I think not, for I solemnly be- 
lieve I was born on purpose to talk and write upon that one 
eternal theme; for I began to love nearly a year before I was 
born, and have kept it up till this very day and hour. Now do 
not mistake me; I never was low in my tastes; on the contrary, I 
have been inspired by a lofty love from the hour my mother left 
me for heaven ! 

The great trouble with me through life has been too ready 



mrinnr niY 1 *! 



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credulity. On that rock I have often stuck. When a man said 
he was my friend, or a woman — some hundreds of both — told 
me she "loved" me, I believed both, and never yet failed to get 
bit for my "folly." This silly trait of my character has been the 
cause of nearly all I ever suffered; and yet I could not help be- 
lieving, cannot even now, in this very bitter hour, for my heart 
is full of love to all mankind, nor lurks there any revengefulness 
toward any, — even those who left my side when the storms came 
down, or the dark phalanx, who blindly cried havoc, and bitterly 
assailed me. I won't be a hypocrite either, and say I love my 
foes, for I do not, nor does any one else. On the contrary, I de- 
sire to see the wrong-dcers punished, — to see this entire set suf- 
fer as I have suffered, until their own souls shall cry "Hold, we 
wronged him, and the penalty is paid!" 

How curious a thing is fate or destiny ! I firmly believe my 
lot was cast where for a time I should be entirely surrounded 
by cyprians, rogues, and hypocrites, as for the six months prior 
to April 16th, 1872, — that I might learn, and be ripened, as that 
the sun shines in the sky; hence I do not curse my enemies, nor 
turn the other cheek to be smitten. I wish them all in heaven, 
and the sooner they arrive there the better I shall like it ; or, that 
while they remain on earth they may experience the delights of 
having three or more successive mothers-in-law; that would sat- 
isfy me perfectly. And yet the question comes up, Can any of 
these men who have wronged me, can any of those at whose hands 
I have unfairly suffered in this world, ever be happy, dead or 
alive, so long as my soul — immortal as the eternal's — treasures up 
the bitter memory, my life blasted by their love of gold and slan- 
der? I think not; and devote the next ten centuries of supra-mor- 
tal life to the solution of the very tremendous problem. Certain it 
is that, knowing somewhat of the laws of mind, soul, justice, and 
of my own enduring and vehement nature, I don't think they'll 
enjoy heaven while I am anywhere consciously within the do- 
mains of the universe. There are about a dozen on wTiat I call 
my eternity list, who will not be happy till I withdraw the sen- 
tence, which I cannot before they sorrow for their sin. I believe 
this to be an eternal principle, imminent, positive, founded in 
mind. When the world understands it, and governs itself ac- 
cordingly, the good time coming will be close at hand. Speed the 
day when it shall be so understood, and abided by! 



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The mother-mark of love within, around, upon and all 
through my nature was not a bad thing to have, in view of possi- 
ble eternity ahead; but not so comfortable so far as this world is 
concerned, because it often made me the dupe and victim of peo- 
ple whom, in some respects, I felt and knew were not my equals. 
Thus it happened that much money, which I had worked hard 
for, easily slipped out of my hands into those of knaves. For 
instance, a whilom "Telegraph-academy " founder, and ex-pro- 
prietor of "The Montreal Hearthstone," Thomas H. Churchill, 
liked me so well, that — before I knew he had ran away from 
Canada, for Canada's good — he borrowed all my spare cash on 
a very long lease. And, while that confidence operation was still 
fresh, I allowed an unprincipled adventuress, from Dighton, 
Providence, and the "queer" parts of New York, to draw me into 
another speculative scheme, because she would keep saying, 
"Je t'aime, je vous aime!" and I, poor ninny, believed her, and 
lost all the rest of my capital, while she, ah, but sne cut a gorge- 
ous swell in black velvet and jockey hat along the principal 
thoroughfares of the centre of the universe — and I dining on "one 
fish-ball" at Presho's — but he, good man, always gave bread 
along with it — but she took her quail on toast at Fera's or 
Stumpke's "Avon cafe." 

This soft spot in my heart struck up and made an equally 
sofe one just under the crown of my hat. It constantly prompted 
implicit reliance on man, woman, or child, who professed friend- 
ship, or something akin thereto; and bitterly has the folly been, 
not atoned for, but punished. 

At this point, Mr. Interviewer, I desire you to understand 
once for all, that when I speak of love within me I never mean 
the mere amative instinct of either the human or the brute, — 
no matter whether on four feet or but two, — but I do mean that 
loftier liking, midway between acquaintanceship and blind, in- 
fatuated adoration. 

Some friends of Mr. Randolph's, on the 12th of Oct., '69, 
prevailed upon him to be examined phrenologically by O. S. 
Fowler. The result is here given! but while many poitns are 
strikingly correct and true, yet the whole is infinitely short of a 
true and full delineation of one who unquestionably occupies a 
place in the front ranks of the original men of this or any other 
age. 

"Impetuosity, sir, is your predominant characteristic. You 



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are built on the high-pressure principle, from the soles of your 
feet clear up to the end of the top-most hair on your head. You 
literally go by steam, and with all your might. Be a little careful 
not to carry it to extremes, for you carry too many pounds to the 
inch. Your energy is therefore tremendous, partly because what 
you want at all you want awfully, and must have it, and what 
you do at all you just do all over, so that success always has 
crowned your efforts. You have not any lazy bones in your 
body, and but that you have a good constitution this tremendous 
energy would soon break you down. So be careful. Your 
power to with stand disease is really wonderful. You can wear 
on, when many others would wear out; so pile on the work, for 
you can endure its wear and tear, and you may calculate to live 
to a good old age, unless you die suddenly, which is possible. A 
tendency to extremes is your greatest fault, and your chief vir- 
tues proceed from the same source. When angry, you are very 
angry. What you say at all, you say very emphatically ! Your 
descriptive powers are certainly remarkable. Highly excitable 
yourself, you excite other people, and of course gather a great 
many around ycu to sympathize with, and help you; and this is 
increased by your hearty friendship. You magnetize them and 
impress them so that they harness themselves into your team, but 
you rarely harness yourself into theirs. You are fond of chil- 
dren, and interest those younger than yourself. Are attached to 
home, and thoroughly patriotic. Have the elements of a soldier, 
but would be too reckless. Are most intensely attached to the 
ladies. Your love is of an ardent — extremely ardent kind; and 
because you carry things to an undue extreme, you will love a 
woman to death, or else hate her correspondingly, and may some 
time find your love suddenly turned. So be careful. Your lady- 
love must be light-complexioned, a blonde, not a brunette; nega- 
tive, not positive; submissive, not "woman's rights;" not marred 
by any personal blemishes; not given to fault-finding or scold- 
ing; very proper in her behavior towards gentlemen; religious, 
clinging, doating, dependent, reserved, fond of money, close- 
fisted. In other respects she must consult your own tastes; but 
she must be of good size, and it would not do for her to be a 
coquette. 

You are so firm as to be doggedly obstinate. You never 
undertook anything wherein you did not succeed, and which you 
did not complete. Perseverance is one of your very strongest 



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traits ; you are even blindly so. You are an out-and-out Radical 
in everything, and so far in advance of public opinion as to be 
constantly martyrized. You make a good many friends, but you 
make some obstinate enemies. You believe next to nothing; are 
governed by correct motives; endeavor to do what is just... Are a 
man of genuine conscientiousness. Are hopeless, so much so, 
that a kind of desperation evinces itself, yet you seem to be one 
of the most reckless of men. You are the very soul of honor! you 
let no man trifle with your character. Your reputation is sa- 
cred. Are not conservative enough. Please remember that your 
radicalism carries you to an undue extreme (measured by the 
popular, ordinary standard) — so temper off a little; you are apt 
to be too denunciatory of those who don't come to your time. You 
are endowed with a strong, clear, vigorous, original intellect ; are 
a man in many, many thousands. Are very remarkable for mem- 
ory of facts and circumstances; but poor enough in memory of 
names and dates. Abundant in order, — every little thing must 
be in its own place. Are grasping in your efforts to make money ; 
but spend it without effort or sufficient care. Ought to have a 
guardian in financial matters; are not well calculated to take 
good care of your own money. Need a close wife, who will save 
up. Need more policy, for you are a great deal too blunt for your 
own good. You are really great in argument — remarkable for 
originality and clearness. Are sharp-witted and a natural critic ; 
remarkable for weaving all the facts you ever learn. Are offhand 
in everything; as it were, inspired by the occasion and do the 
best in your offhand efforts. Express yourself handsomely ; talk 
freely; say in the best manner what you say at all, and are every 
way calculated to make your mark. Your natural place is as a 
speaker, and on reform subjects; next to that, writing and pub- 
lishing; but do what you will, you will make a sensation. You 
are utterly unfit for anything pecuniary or commercial." 

The last sentence my life has proven to be true ; and I often 
wonder how it feels to have a genuine love of lucre. 

Why should there be any regrets ? Why whine because my 
heart was full of kindly love, which some folks said was a lower 
passion? but I defied the proof! defy it still! True, none but 
libertines and Free-love Freedom-shriekers, of no sex at all, ever 
made that gross charge against me! and no decent person ever 
said or even thought it! There are no regrets in my soul, save 



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that I was sometimes so blind as to love those who knew not the 
sacred meaning of the word ; and these, when I have refused their 
wild bacchanals, and loathingly, shudderingly turned from their 
proffered orgies, have, stung to the quick, sedulously sought by 
lying tongues to drag my name down to the horrible level of their 
own. 

Yet, in some sense this affectional credulity, this blind trust 
in whoever, of whatever grade, degree, sex or calibre, from crown- 
ed kings on their thrones — and some such have said to me, "I 
am your friend!" — to Pompey Smash on an African lagoon, has 
been not altogether a curse, for it has taught me the true value 
of three true men, two of whom I have named in "Casca Llanna," 
— which work contains many of the strange results of my love- 
life. It has been actually profitable — this strange experience — to 
the soul within me, inasmuch as that it demonstrated the fright- 
ful difference between Agape and Stoga, — actual love and resem- 
blant passion ! — taught me what real womanhood actually is, and 
pictured on my spirit her real sorrows and actual worth, so as to 
make me champion her true cause everywhere by speech and pen, 
and in two instances with a different sort of weapon. The con- 
sequence of which has been that all true women have defended 
me, and howling dervishes only tiraded against my name, — for 
reasons just stated above ! 

There's a deal of sham love, friendship, men and women in 
the world, and to find it out was worth some pain and more 
trouble. 

At this point the first interview ended. Let us now turn to 
other scenes of his career, the account of which is gleaned from 
other sources. In 1861 (4) -Mr. Randolph visited California, 
and for ten weeks lectured to admiring and constantly increasing 
crowds of people, frequently accepting challenges from his audi- 
ences to speak on any theme selected by them, and whereof he 
was wholly uninformed until the moment it was announced to 
him or. the rostrum. And he did this wholly and solely by aid of 
his own mental power. 

Ten weeks from the day of his arrival, he quitted the Gold- 
en State having resolved to visit the Orient, for the purpose of 
gathering information respecting human antiquity and ethnology, 
and treading spots sacred from associations connected with 
Christ, Plato, Mahomet and other great characters. This idea 



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he carried out, and in 1861-2 (5) successively visited England, 
Scotland, Ireland, France, Malta, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Pales- 
tine, Turkey and Greece, — the result being his celebrated book 
"Pre-Adamite Man," (6) whereof three editions were exhausted 
in a little over eight months. This volume he dedicated to 
Abraham Lincoln, then President — at the expressed desire of 
that great martyr. 

At the President's suggestion, Mr. Randolph, in 1864, (7) 
went to New Orleans, and entered on the great work of educating 
the children of the freed people, with what success, let the hun- 
dreds of grateful parents and children testify. 

The life motto of this man has been and is — 
"Pledged to no sect; to no creed confined; 
The world my home, my brethren all mankind;" 
and strenuously tried he to live up to it. In 1853, he was a 
very prominent actor in a then new Reformatory party, whose 
blazon was freed speech, free thought, free men, and yet when 
he acted upon their motto, was stigmatized as recreant and trait- 
or, by the very people who declared themselves his well-wishers 
and friends. One of the leading ones especially for long years 
proclaimed himself his "friend," yet in every possible way, 
neglect included, gave the lie to his verbal protestations, even in 
face of the notorious fact that in the infancy of the movement, 
Randolph had bravely stood by and helped that very man in his 
then uphill work. But in the day of dollars, the great leader 
practically ignored and rejected Mr. Randolph, reminding the 
writer of that other hero of whom 'tis said : — 

"It grieved him sore, when making Frenchmen die, 
To any inconvenience to put them; 
It quite distressed his people he would cry, 
That he must cut their throats, 

And then he cut them ! 
"And thus through many a campaign 

He cut and carved, and cut and come again; 

Still pitying and killing! 
Lamenting sorely for men's souls, 
While pretty little eyelet holes 

Clean through their bodies he kept drilling." 
Almost entirely alone stood he for weary years, for there 
was a tacit understanding among thousands to crush him out. 



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How wonderfully well the "New York Herald's" words fit 
him: — 

"The greater effort to keep him down only inspired in him 
the greater energy of will. Regarded by many as of the Don 
Quixote school of enthusiasts, and fighting windmills, he yet 
fought with a lustiness of purpose and honesty of determination 
that elicited commendation of his heroic endeavors, though 
often fruitlessly expended in what plainly foreshadowed itself 
as a hopelessly lost cause. Fighting against odds was his ele- 
ment. No amount of defeats daunted him. Pushed under at 
one point, he rose to the surface elsewhere, as fiery, impetuous, 
determined as ever. These remarks apply more particularly of 
course to the time, so to speak, when he was in the zenith of his 
reformatory measures. For the past two or three years he has 
enjoyed comparative obscurity — an obscurity, however, more his 
own election than the result of the strenuous opposition he had to 
combat. There was a good deal of the Timon of Athens in his 
nature. The soubriquet 'The Comet-man' applied to him, was 
the popular recognition of this strongly dominant trait. Embit- 
tered like Timon, and his confidence in human integrity shaken, 
if not wholly lost, he voluntarily exiled himself from the ignoble 
strife." 

The life-record of such a strange, conglomerate being, is 
itself a romance exceeding any ever put on paper by ambitious 
novelist. That of Jean Jaques Rosseau is not comparable to it; 
for Alexander Dumas, pere, (8) declared that Randolph's (his 
friend,) life and adventures in a dozen directions, would afford 
the groundwork of a score of D'Artagnans, Monte Cristos and 
"Admirable" Crichtons, in everything except wealth. Born in 
New York of conglomerate parentage, hejs all nations beneath 
one hat, possessing the brilliancy of many, and solidity of all; 
for this curious being, w T ho taught himself to read and write, at 
twenty-five had absolutely mastered the spirit of both science and 
philosophy, and at that age was anxiously on the lookout for 
more worlds to conquer. This opinion is finely confirmed and 
demonstrated by the writer of a letter received by Mr. Randolph, 
on the twenty-first of March, 1872, an extract of which is here 
given verbatim, the original being in the writer's possession: — 
"OSWEGO, N. Y., March 18, 1872. 

"P. B. RANDOLPH: One thing you know as well as I or 



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any one can tell you, that you, as far as the hereafter, and the 
occult is concerned, are a thousand years too soon for most peo- 
ple ! They cannot appreciate your or your works. 'Spiritualists' 
need not be counted out neither, as a general thing. If I could 
leave I would go to you at Boston, and while away the balance 
of my mortal life in study, and investigating the occult sciences 
you treat in your works. There is one thing that must bring to 
you some sweet reflections on your downward journey to the 
grave, and that is, when you have passed to the 'Beyond,' you 
will have the satisfaction of knowing that, among the countless 
millions that have peopled this globe, there never was found 
but one P. B. Randolph, and what he did no other human being 
could do, or could learn to do! — the influence of which will be 
felt while time and eternity shall last! Rather sweet reflections 
those! 

"Yours truly, "L. B. RICE." 

Again, about the same time, on this very point of extraordi- 
nary knowledge, alluding to one of his works, Mr. R. received 
the following 

HIGH COMMENDATION FROM AN EXPERT 
"ROOM 61, PENSION BUREAU, 

WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 19, 1871. 
"P, B. Randolph, author of Seership — 

"My Dear Brother: I have read the first part of 'The Mys- 
teries of the Magnetic Universe,' and proclaim it to be the most 
comprehensive, clearest and best work on clairvoyance, and how 
to induce it, that I have ever seen. In my judgment, it will 
meet great acceptance by all who are interested in this occult 
science. I would recommend it to their attention. You erred, 
I think, in publishing so small an edition, as it necessarily en- 
hances the price; yet I would not part with my copy for five times 
its cost if I could not obtain another. Please send me 'James 
Fisk, Jr., His Secret, &c.' Enclosed is twenty-five cents there- 
for. 

"Your friend and brother, 

"GEORGE WHITE." 

This ability sprung from a restless determination to fathom 
the most intricate subtleties of every subject which his intellect 
could even attempt to grasp; while as a close, cogent reasoner, 
few surpassed this concrete man. Tens of thousands there be all 



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over this broad land who have sat or stood for long hours, actu- 
ally spellbound beneath the flood and torrent of his matchless 
and magnetic eloquence; and yet he failed to realize the just re- 
ward for it; and when actually reduced to a pound of crackers, 
and the necessity of broiling his own herring to eat with it, 
has been known scores of times to positively refuse to speak for 
fees varying from twenty-five to one hundred and fifty dollars, 
"because," said he, "the time hasn't come!" Thus how very 
true it is that: — 

"Genius, restive, refuses now to fly, 
And reap rich laurels from the bending sky; 
But moody sits, disdaining high to soar, 
And plays with marbles, childlike, on the floor." 
This trait made foes for Mr. Randolph, for he would not 
lend himself to speculators. These foes increased in number, 
and, unlike most men, who lose their power and foes at the same 
time, he added to both until his ill star culminated in a criminal 
arrest, and then it set, and it is believed set forever, because it 
gave his real friends an opportunity of doing him a service in 
spite of himself. 

The pebbles in our pathway make us more foot-sore than 
the huge rocks we stoutly climb. And it was the smaller annoy- 
ances, born of petty spite and envy that mostly grieved the sub- 
ject of this sketch; but believing, with Lord Brougham, that 
"The word 'impossible' is the mother-tongue of little souls," 
Mr. Randolph never uttered or even thought it. "When I wrote 
my works," said he, "I meant every word I penned, hence de- 
creed their immortality in advance," and he spoke the truth. 
During the past twenty-five years, at least a score of thousand 
of new writers have tried their wings, and most of them, books 
and writers, have fallen into the deep sea of forgetfulness. Not 
so with those sent forth by the lone toiler in a garret. Take up 
and read nine hundred works out of nine hundred and ten, and 
when you finish their perusal, that's the last of them for you. 
True there will be many of them which will so impress them- 
selves upon you that their memory will never wholly fade away ; 
but take up any one of Randolph's books, and the memory will 
so haunt you as to compel a re-reading again and again, and 
every time you do so fresh new thoughts continually flash out 
upon you from the magic pages. That results from the great 



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mass of works being the labor of skilled talent, while such as 
Randolph's are the bold, untrained utterances of genius. 

If greatness consist partly in doing and producing much 
with means which, in the hands of others, would have been in- 
sufficient, then Randolph possesses that constituent of greatness; 
if greatness means power and ingeniousness to concentrate the 
gifts and talents of many on one point, to inspire them with 
sympathy and enthusiasm for the same end, and to make them 
gladly contribute toward it, then he was great ; if it is great to see 
from earliest manhood the main end of one's individual life, and 
steadily to pursue it to the very end with the highest gifts of 
nature, then he was great; if it pertains to greatness to soar 
high, indeed, in the one selected sphere, but to be trivial or 
puerile in none — on the contrary, to retain a vivid sympathy 
with all that is noble, beautiful, true and just, then he was great; 
if it is a characteristic of greatness to be original and strike out 
new paths, — indeed, even to prophetic anticipations, — but to re- 
fuse the good of no antecedent, then he was great; if greatness 
requires marked individuality, which yet takes up all the main 
threads that give distinctness to the times we live in ; if inventive 
and interleaguing imagination, which gathers what is scattered, 
and, grandly simplifying and uniting the details, rears a temple, 
is a concomitant of greatness, his mind and soul possessed it. If 
truly great men are not jealous and are void of envy, are full of 
inspiring ambition, but free from a desire to keep competitors 
down — Randolph showed no envy, nothing that destroys true 
greatness. 

No one has ever heard from his lips any indication from 
which it might be surmised that he shared in that supercilious- 
ness with which modern philosophers and thinkers not unfre- 
quently look upon other sciences and branches of knowledge. 
On the contrary, he took the deepest interest in human society, 
and all the branches which treat of men and social beings. He 
never fell into the grievous error of considering matter, space, 
force, and time of higher importance than mind, society, right 
and goodness. 

In 1866, Mr. Randolph was a red-hot politician, — he is 
not so incandescent latterly, mainly, by reason of other pur- 
suits, — but at that time he was a delegate from Louisiana to the 
Southern Loyal Convention, held in Philadelphia, and as such 



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helped perform the celebrated ''Political Pilgrimage" through 
the Northern States to Lincoln's tomb in Illinois. At the end of 
the affair the Chicago Tribune published the subjoined article on 
the man who had done so much toward what he regarded as the 
best good of the land : — 

The art of public speaking is one that thousands of every 
xace, hue and clime attempt; and many are the failures, few the 
great successes achieved ; for it is not every man who holds within 
himself the elements that enter into the composition of a great 
speaker, for it is equally true of oratory as of its sister Divine 
Art, Music, that 

"Few can touch the magic string, 
And noisy Fame is glad to win them. 
Alas! for those that cannot sing, 

But die with all their music in them." 

It is related of an ambitious aspirant for popular eclat that 
he prepared a grand oration, which he intended to pronounce at 
the dedication of a bridge, somewhere in New Hampshire, firmly 
persuaded that on the success of his efforts depended the weal or 
woe of present men and future generations. The worthy young 
lawyer had committed his speech to memory, and had it as the 
play-house people say, "Dead-letter perfect," for many and oft 
were the times he had delivered it in the solitudes of his cham- 
ber, with all its flourishes, beauties, light, shades, graces, intona- 
tions, gestures and genuflexions, to the intense satisfaction of 
himself and his shadow in the mirror, the verdict being that he 
had a dead sure thing, and no mistake. At length the long- 
looked-for and eventful day came, all bright and sunny, whereon 
the bridge was to be duly and solemnly dedicated to its future, 
uses, and the magnificent speech delivered in thrilling tones to 
the tinkling ears of to-be entranced and captivated thousands. 
The hour came, and the candidate for laurelled honors stepped 
forward, and, bowing lowly to the expectant throng, opened his 
lips, and to his utter horror and consternation, found that he had 
utterly forgotten every word of his oration, save the introduc- 
tion. "Fellow-citizens, forty years ago this bridge was a por- 
tion of the howling wilderness," — and there he stuck, for not 
another sentence could he utter of the speech that was to capti- 
vate all hearts. Abashed, crest-fallen, but by no means con- 
quered, he speedily regained his self-possession, and went on, — 



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''Forty years ago, I repeat, this bridge was part and parcel of 
the roaring solitude of the howling, damp, foggy and noisome 
wilderness. I repeat, fellow-countrymen, that on the great and 
momentous occasion referred to — namely, forty years ago — this 
bridge constituted a portion of an interminable waste, where no 
green thing — as now — reared its head and met the eye; no 
sounds, odorous, and soul-subduing, or gurgling brooks and 
limpid streams, combined with the terrific roar of rushing tor- 
rents, fell upon the startled ear of the wandering hosts of man- 
kind, or disturbed the savage tranquility of serene and gorgeous 
nature! Exactly forty years ago this bridge was part of the 
wilderness, and — and I wish to God it had remained so and 
stayed there!' and breaking hopelessly down, that orator became 
totally extinguished, and went out in a blaze of funny glory. 

This country, with its free institutions, newspapers, schools, 
colleges, popular ballot elections and general diffusion of knowl- 
edge among the people, has been very prolific of orators, not a 
few of whom have been indeed great, while thousands of others, 
just falling short of "grasping the keys of fame," have yet reach- 
ed high places in the Pantheon of great speakers; nor can there 
be a doubt that were it possible to put Cicero, Cato, and De- 
mosthenes side by side with some orators who are native to our 
fruitful soil, in an effort to move men's pulses, and stir the pop- 
ular heart with fluent speech and eloquence, in a fair trial, the 
latter would easily bear away the olive crown and laurel wreath 
from the men of auld lang syne ; they would, in such a trial, un- 
unquestionably bear off the palm of victory from their hoary 
rivals of the olden days of Greece and Rome, great and powerful 
as they confessedly were. 

Upon the brightest pages of American oratory inscribed 
are the names of many a noble, and terrible master of speech, 
among which are the immortal ones of Patrick Henry, Rufus 
Choate, Daniel Webster, of whom it was said he was "godlike," 
and that of Wendell Phillips, accounted — not justly — the king 
of living speakers — for today he has a rival so great that he must 
look well to his laurels, — and that rival the great Octoroon of 
Louisiana, "He stands alone." Then there was John Randolph, 
(9) of Roanoke, — a blood relative of P. B., of New Orleans, — 
both eccentric sons of Old Virginia, and the speech of either 
alike doube-edged, sharp as a razor, and which cuts its way 



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through the listeners like a charge of needles power-impelled. 
But of the two, by those who have sat spellbound beneath the elo- 
quent speech of both, the Octoroon stands first as an orator, and 
yields nothing either on the score of intellectual ability, eccen- 
tricity, or absolute and unequivocal independence of character. 
Looming up, a giant among men, stands John C. Calhoun, the 
grand apostate to liberty, but none the less a great orator. Side 
by side with these mighty men stands Henry Clay, the "Mill Boy 
of the Slashes," Preston King, and, ahead of all, A. J. Hamil- 
ton, of Texas, — the magnificent Boanerges of all modern speak- 
ers, when the thunders of his soul are up. He infinitely sur- 
passes in force and power the redoubtable orator of Peterboro, 
Gerrit Smith, — himself a speaker of rare excellence, of the same 
gigantic physical mould, the same deep and thunderous orotund, 
— as far as Smith eclipses the last new stumper of Iowa, the last 
Rackensack roarer that politics has turned up to the surface. 

Even females in this free land have won fame and wealth, 
as public speakers, and command full houses, at good prices, 
wherever they go. Nor can these facts be attributed to morbid- 
ity on the part of the public — a mere idle curiosity to hear a 
woman speak, that being such an every-day affair as to excite 
little notice in itself considered, especially since the advent of 
Woman's Rights. Passing by the mass included in this last 
category, there are a few whose claims, being based on inborn 
genius, are not to be disputed. Then we have the pretty Quak- 
eress, Anna Dickinson, and her swarthy rival Ellen Watkins 
Harper; a pair so equally matched that, save on the score of 
youth and beauty — wherein Anna has an immense advantage — 
it is hard to decide which is the better of the twain. Rivalry on 
this prolific field is not confined to sect or race, for even the de- 
spised negro, pure and unmixed, has dared to enter the lists, and 
of this class Martin R. Delany, Henry H. Garnett, and towering 
away above all others, physically as mentally, stands Samuel 
Ringgold Ward, black as night, eloquent as Cassius, and in a 
fair fight rather more than a match for the mixed blood, Fred 
Douglass — the latter of whom, at an early stage of the irre- 
pressible conflict between Slavery and Freedom, got the inside 
track of all his rivals, and managed to keep it until within a 
very short period. Everybody has heard or read of D., a man of 
mixed Caucasian blood, in equal halves, and who, escaping from 



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slavery, became famous in the land, ranked high among public 
speakers, and challenged a place in the front rank with the best 
and most finished talkers that were on the stage or rostrum. His 
case and career are exceptional, for he rose not alone by force of 
his undoubted talent, but mainly by and through the persistent 
and powerful aid of not easily wearied friends, wherein he differs 
greatly from P. B. Randolph, who never had a party, and who 
burst upon the world solely by force of his own resistless genius 
— for he is a genius, and that, too, of the first water, as all will 
concede who have ever heard him, or read his great work on 
human antiquity, "Pre-Adamite Man," or "Ravalette," or "Tom 
Clark," or "The Grand Secret," — titles of a few of his many 
works, all written prior to his thirty-fifth year, and after he had 
thrice circumnavigated the globe. D. has written one book, a 
narrative of personal adventure. Randolph has written twelve 
works, dealing with a hundred sciences and the profoundest 
problems of philosophy. D.'s friends constituted a party, pow- 
erful enough after years of struggle, to give tone, shape and color 
to the entire system of American politics, and had wealth and 
warmth; while Randolph studied out in the cold, and actually 
begged his bread from door to door, and all because he steadily 
refused to follow any leader or be hampered by any party what- 
ever; firmly believing in himself, he knew his power, and was 
from the start certain of the result he aimed at — and has reach- 
ed. These two men are powers among the people, albeit the D. 
of twelve years ago could discount the D. of to-day; for age, 
and the long wear and tear of years have dimmed the fire of his 
eye and heart, and swift, prolific tongue. Supreme among his 
race for five and twenty years, he can well afford to retire before 
a greater power, content with laurels such as few men of any race, 
much less his own, have won on this or any other continent. 
Plow well do we remember when slavery existed, how D., whose 
great forte was special pleading, attacked it; with what remorse- 
less venom he assailed the Fugitive-Slave law, and with gall- 
tipped lip pierced its heart with fiery shafts, making the wrong- 
doers writhe again beneath the torture of his sarcastic lash. But 
slavery is no more. That battle has been fought and won, and 
Douglas' occupation is gone. True there remains the war for 
franchise, and he strikes well and strikes home for that, yet he is 



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the General Scott in the contest, and the battle must be fought 
by younger men. 

D. in his day has been a very strong man, and yet while ad- 
mired by people, was notoriously unloved by them. He always 
stood above and looked down upon his fellows with hauteur. On 
the contrary, everybody that knows, loves Randolph, who, al- 
though the ablest man among them on this continent, assumes 
no arrogance of manner, but is equally at home in the squalid 
cabin of the freedman, and at the garnished tables of crowned 
kings; hence the former never possessed any lasting influence 
over them; for great as he was, he never had, even in his palmy 
days, anything like the mental power, activity, energy and in- 
tellectual resources of the great Octoroon, who, content to remain 
in comparative seclusion, patiently biding his time, sprang at a 
single bound, in the memorable Philadelphia Southern Loyai 
Convention of September, 1866, not only to the highest place 
among men, but to the front rank of the mighty minds at the 
nead of that august body — embracing as it did the highest talent 
and amount of brain, qualitatively and in volume, of any simi- 
lar body ever convened on this continent. Such a scene as 
transpired in that Convention was never before witnessed as 
when he rushed to the speaker's stand and delivered in words of 
living fire that immortal speech wherein he announced himself 
as "the voice of four millions clamoring for justice at the bar of 
the world!" It was masterly, it was sublime, and as sentence 
after sentence rolled from his tongue, the effect was irresistible; 
four thousand people, with one impulse, repeatedly sprang tu 
their feet and rent the air with plaudit after plaudit, until audi- 
tors and orator were alike hoarse with vocal exertion. The work 
was done. Randolph had gained his place, and beyond all 
question given tone and shape to the practical platforms of 
American politics. D. sat listening in the hall, and to his 
eternal credit be it said, was as vehement in his applause as any 
one present, feeling as he did, that Randolph's victory was his 
own. Indeed there exists the most brotherly feeling between 
these two great men, and no one praises D. half so earnestly as 
Randolph. What an example for true statesmen! D. had no 
seat in the Convention as did Randolph, because he hailed from 
the North, for which reason the Louisianian was deputed by the 
Convention to help perform the memorable pilgrimage to the 



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tomb of the martyred Lincoln, and well did he perform it. Few 
who were present at the tomb on that beautiful October day will 
ever forget the solemn scene when a thousand people knelt, and 
with bare heads and uplifted hands, swore never to rest until the 
American flag should wave peacefully and undisturbed over 
every foot of Columbia's soil; nor the sublime spectacel of Ran- 
dolph, with tears falling like rain upon the sod, kneeling at the 
door of Lincoln's grave, depositing flowers, tear-wet flowers, at 
the shrine of the man whose pen had stricken the shackles from 
nearly five millions of the people, and these flowers he had gath- 
ered on the way during a journey of several days and hundreds 
of miles. It was a fitting tribute of an earnest soul to a nation's 
hero! 

The Louisianian — by the way he is of Virginia stock, and 
located in Louisiana at the express instance of his friend, Presi- 
dent Lincoln, (10) to labor in the great educational interests of 
that State — under the management of Branscomb, the Holyoke 
lawyer, an honorary member of the convention, who, as Chair- 
man of the Pilgrimage Committee, determined at the start to put 
him to the severest possible test, with what motive himself best 
knew, and, therefore, invariably pitted him on the same platform 
with the ablest men of that immortal thirty-eight, with Stencil 
Paschall, Davis and Sherwood, of Texas, Maynard, Stokes, 
Bokaum, Patterson and Brownlow, of Tennessee; Griffin, of 
Alabama; Moss, of Missouri; Stewart, of Maryland; Warmouth, 
of Louisiana; and repeatedly with Hamilton, of Texas, conceded 
to be the leading orator of the continent, and second to no man 
now living. And yet the brave little Octoroon never once flinch- 
ed or declined Branscomb's challenge to try conclusions with 
the best of them, either on the score of mere oratory or profound 
statesmanship ; and with what success, the united plaudits of the 
entire American press unitedly testify; for at every point where 
he spoke, through nine different States, addressing in the ag- 
gregate, full half a million people, he never once failed to chal- 
lenge the closest attention, and command the deepest and most 
enthusiastic applause, by not merely his wit and resistless hu- 
mor, readiness at repartee, but by his profound, original, states- 
manlike, and masterly discussions of the principles of govern- 
ment, the mighty issues at stake, and his withering rebuke of 
corruption in high places of the land. 



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As previously remarked, Randolph considers himself as no 
man's rival, hence an utter absence of all jealousy or envy. In- 
deed, there is no need of it on the score of fame, for his reputa- 
tion is world-wide, and in England and France (11) he took 
front rank as on his native soil; nor on the score of popularity, 
for thousands flock to hear him at all points, albeit he never 
fails to make as good a speech, when storms give him slim au- 
diences, — which is a very rare occurrence, — as when hundreds 
stand for want of seats. 

As compared with D , Randolph has not the same sar- 
castic power, or grimace, but excels him in description, word- 
painting, language, apostrophe, appeal, denunciation, — terrible, 
swift, merciless and crushing, — and, withal, is an actor of such 
rare power that the scene depicted becomes real to the audience. 
Nothing can excell his "Prairie on Fire;" his "Clink, Clink" 
scene; "The Cobra Copello" adventure; "Democrat in Heaven:" 
"Descent into the Maelstrom;" "Pat and the Octoroon;" and 
the inimitable "Bar Fite" away down south in Dixie, at the 
recital of which people are wont to laugh themselves sore from 
rib to heel, for his action is ridiculously absurd, while his talk is 
irresistibly funny. 

When he made his famous Philadelphia speech, which, by 
the way, was by no means up to his usual mark, even the opposi- 
tion tried hard to drown the voices of the rest by the most vo- 
ciferous acclamations of applause and delight wrung from them 
by profound astonishment at the wonderful power displayed. 
The "New York Independent" at once ranked him as "one of the 
first of American orators;" and yet, all these praises and pane- 
gyrics fell upon his ears like the echoes from a dead wall, and he 
invariably treated them not as to and for himself, but as the 
natural and spontaneous recognition and approval of the Right: 
"I am not P. B. Randolph; I am the voice of God, crying, 'Hold! 
hold!' to the nation in its mad career! The lips of the strug- 
gling millions of the disfranchised demanding Justice in the 
name of Truth — a Peter the Hermit, preaching a new crusade 
against Wrong, — the Genius of Progress appealing for schools; 
a pleader for the people; a toiler for the millions yet unborn; 
mechanic for the redemption of the world." 

Mr. Randolph was the personal friend of Mr. Lincoln, to 
whom, by the great President's request and permission, Ran- 



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dolph dedicated his famous work on human antiquity, "Pre* 
Adamite Man," conceded to be an able work, exhaustive of its 
topic, and now going through its fourth edition. It is a classic 
of its kind. Being a refugee from his home in t'ne South, by 
reason of the prominent part he had taken in the Union cause, 
he made Boston the headquarters of himself and those dependent 
upon him until the Loyalists' oath is redeemed, and the starry 
flag becomes respected on every inch of American soil. During 
the lecture season he will lecture through the States, he having 
prepared several that are highly spoken of. 

Those who miss hearing this extraordinary man, one of the 
most remarkable characters of the age, will, to quote a great au- 
thority, lose a treat not to be had in a quarter of a century." 

The subject of the foregoing sketch cared but little for the 
fine things said, and less for the parallelisms drawn. They are 
here given for a purpose not at all apparent at this stage of the 
writing, but will be further on. Said he, in reply to a letter 
concerning the material wherefrom this pamphlet is made: — "I 
do not like to have such things published, — it don't suit me, — ■ 
and if I do allow them it most assuredly will not be for self- 
defence or laudation, for I have lived long enough to get cured 
of that inanity; — nor for the praise of people, — caring nothing 
whatever for that, as I certainly am not afraid of their censures, 
— for both alike are unjustly given half the time, and neither 
are worth losing a night's sweet sleep for. 

Before me, as I write, are three or four large scrap-books, 
teeming with just such testimonials as the foregoing, and 
sprinkled here and there with curt, sharp, bitter denunciations 
and diatribes, false accusations, mainly gotten up for political 
effect during the memorable political campaign of 1866; while 
a few are the utterances of fanatics whom I disappointed, and 
who, failing to be smart enough to mould and use me to their 
liking, fell to obscene abuse, — always the resort of little people 
every and anywhere. I think I have done so much good in the 
world, possibly some evil, albeit never intentionally, — which will 
be believed when I am dead, if not before." 

The principles underlying Mr. Randolph's life will be found 
set forth in all his works, and in hundreds of his essays, poems, 
newspaper articles, songs, letters, lectures and fugitive pieces 
now floating up and down the sea of literature, translated into 



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five languages, — like shallops of silver on lakes of ink: works 
too, of a character that ensures their lives long after their strug- 
gling author shall have winged his way from this valley of un- 
rest, to the golden country on the other side of time; for they 
have already given him a lofty place in the pantheon of great 
thinkers, but not so high a position as he will have a hundred 
years from now. 

A writer in the "Union Gazette," of Bunker Hill, 111., in 
allusion to Mr. Randolph's work, "Sequel to Dealings with the 
Dead," uses the following language: — 

If Dr. Randolph had not been born a melee, he would prob- 
ably have stood an equal chance with other men. And but for 
the same ill-luck nobody would think it strange that he should 
be found disputing with the doctors in the temple, or even bear- 
ing that title himself. As it is, he must be utterly incapable of 
giving birth to a single thought, or in any way showing himself 
worthy of being reckoned a human being. Such is a fair deduc- 
tion from the premises laid down and reasoned from by those 
who have long gloried in the title of democrat. 

Of course, those who deny intelligence to the doctor, will 
find no difficulty in referring the brilliant scintillations and 
unique thoughts in which his writings abound, to a supra-mun- 
dane or ethereal origin. We prefer giving this world — bad 
enough at best — credit for all the good that belongs to it ; and the 
"ethereans" can hardly expect a recognition of their services 
from those who are not the immediate subjects of their ministry. 
P. B. Randolph probably writes, like other men, with a con- 
scious effort ; and though he may sometimes lose sight of the fact 
that he is in this world, it is nevertheless a fact; nor is it more 
true in his case than in that of other men, that the gods help those 
who help themselves. 

But we took up our pen simply to call attention to the fact 
that a new and startling work by Dr. R. is being published 
weekly in a philosophical paper of Chicago, and also in book- 
form by himself, in Boston, Mass. The title of the work is, 
"Sequel to Dealings with the Dead." Its author claims to have 
looked out through space further than most men, and to have 
penetrated further into the arcana of nature. Many of his 
statements seem to border on the marvellous, and yet they are 
no doubt intended by their author for grave and spendid truths. 



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There is an air of romance about the work, as well as many 
scientific allusions; and being written in a terse style, as well 
as earnest spirit, cannot fail to give satisfaction to the general 
reader, the scholar, and to those who look for a philosophical 
solution of the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" 

Those who desire to read this thrilling narrative, and much 
other matter both curious and useful, shouldn't fail to send to 
the author for it. 

A single quotation from the "Sequel," in regard to the fate 
of genius, may not prove uninteresting, nor without its value as 
showing the hopeful vein in which the doctor writes. 

"Every genius is ticketed for misery in this life; for there's 
but an angular, one-sided, painful development. A few advan- 
tages are purchased at an enormous cost. A short, brilliant, 
erratic career, more kicks than praises; more flattering leeches 
than fast friends; rich and joyous to-day, houseless and suffer- 
ing the pangs of hell to-morrow; understood by God alone; 
seldom loved till dead; the victims of bad men, and constant 
dupes even of themselves! Genius is a bright bauble, but a 
dangerous possession. Invariably open to two worlds, they are 
assaulted, coaxed, flattered, led captive on all sides, and the only 
rest comes with death. And although measurably happy, and 
entirely relieved of many disabilities on the further shore, they 
have enormous tasks to do. They are compelled to train all their 
previously neglected faculties to something like consonnance 
with those few wherewith they startled the world below. For 
instance: A man who was a great architect, musician, physiolo- 
gist, painter, sculptor, poet, reasoner, must cultivate all his other 
faculties until he becomes rounded out: outgrows his special 
angularities, and be a different man altogether. It is a blessed 
thing to be able, as I am, to tell all such, and all the other tear- 
ful, unknown, sad-hearted, weary souls, the unpitied, unappre- 
ciated wives; the struggling, honest, man who goes to the wall 
because he cannot pollute his soul by chicanery and low knav- 
ery, whereby coarser men find thrift — I repeat, it is joy to me 
this night to be able to pen these lines of assurance that in very 
truth there's rest, and peace, and sweet sleep, and comfort, and 
sympathy, appreciation, and warmly yearning, loving hearts for 
them up there. How some of us will rest, when our year of 
jubilee shall come, and death shall set us free!" 



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It has long been brought against the Randolph that he is 
angular and eccentric. When was real true-born genius other- 
wise? Flora, his mother, was said to have been, as is likely, a 
woman of extraordinary mental activity and physical beauty, 
nervous, "high strung," and wilful; a native of Vermont, of 
mingled Indian, French, English, German and Madagascan 
blood, — she had not a single drop of negro in her veins, nor con- 
sequently has her son, the subject of this memoir,. The tawny 
complexion of both mother and son came from her grandmother, 
a born queen of the Island of Madagascar. It is not necessary 
to trace events minutely. Suffice it to say, that the father of the 
Randolph was William Beverly Randolph of Virginia; Flora 
died in 1832, leaving her son practically an orphan. The so- 
called "angularity," and genius with it, of her son, had its origin 
in the fact that in his veins ran no less than seven distinct varie- 
ties, or strains of blood, true negro, or continental African not 
constituting one of them; hence, he is not a mulatto, quadroon or 
octoroon, as has been stated, but is probably the most perfect 
specimen of the composite, or concrete man now living, for it is 
unquestionably this mingling of various nationalities in him that 
constitutes the source of his peculiar mental power and almost 
marvellous versatility. It also accounts for his singular cerebral 
conformation. Given: a mother, — herself a composite of con- 
flicting bloods, very nervous, somewhat superstitious, poetical, 
vain, imaginative, aspiring, deeply religious, confiding, stormy, 
intuitive, spiritual, imperative, imperious, ambitious, physically 
and mentally active, quick as lightning, exacting, gay and gloomy 
by turns; now hopeful, then despondent; to-day hilarious, to- 
morrow plunged in sadness; highly sensitive, refined, passional 
and passionate, tempestuous ; now stubborn and headstrong ; cold 
as ice; full of moods; then Vesuvian, volcanic, loving, yielding, 
soft, tender, gentle, proud, generous, warm-hearted and volup- 
tuous. And what must the child of such a woman be — but as 
he is, a genius! 

Thus the mother — a mother who while becoming so, willed 
her child to be all she was, all its father was — and more! — and 
that father wilful, egotistic, boastful, haughty, vain, proud, con- 
ceited, sensual, senuous, ambitious, dictatorial, intellectual, prod- 
igal, unstable, variable, resentful, imperative; and all these 
crystallized and condensed, mingled and mixed in their son; it 



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can easily be seen that he came fairly by his angularities, eccen- 
tricities, personal appearance, talent, power and shape of mind. 
Add to this that while bearing him, his mother was in trouble; 
had been ill-treated by so-called friends ; was thrown back upon 
herself, forced to eat her own heart, and sought that sympathy 
from disembodied souls denied her here, and what wonder that 
the Randolph was born a seer ? 

After his mother's death, he was cast adrift on the world. 
Educated himself wholly, never attending school above a year or 
two at the outside. Incessant study has made him probably one 
of the best read men in this country. From his twelfth to his 
twentieth year he was a sailor, and experienced even more than 
the usual amount of savage treatment and abuse. A severe acci- 
dent that befell him while chopping wood caused him to aban- 
don the sea, and to learn the dyer's and barber's trades, at both 
of which he worked, while pursuing his varied and extensive 
reading, especially on medicine, which profession he followed 
with marked success, until the breaking out of the war for slav- 
ery, during the first two years of which he visited California, 
Mexico, Central America, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, 
Turkey, Greece, Syria, Egypt and Arabia. Returning at the 
hour of the nation's greatest peril, he offered his services to the 
government, raised and sent into the field a great many colored 
soldiers, destined at first for the "Fremont Legion," but who 
joined other corps. During these labors he published his world- 
renowned work on human antiquity, "Pre-Adamite Man," and 
ran it through three rapid editions; after which, at President 
Lincoln's personal request, he went to Louisiana, and for nearly 
three years did noble duty as an educator of the freed people. 
When the school system established by General Banks in Louis- 
iana went down under A. Johnson and his "Policy," Mr. Ran- 
dolph resigned his place, and elaborated a scheme for the es- 
tablishment of a Lincoln Memorial High Grade and Normal 
School, for colored teachers, and came North in July, 1866, to 
further its interests. For one month he labored to collect funds, 
and succeeded in obtaining nearly five hundred dollars in cash, 
and promises for a great deal more. Then came the ever-mem- 
orable Philadelphia Convention of Southern Loyalists, of which 
body Mr. Randolph was a constituent, and by it was delegated 



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campaign it against President Andrew Johnson, and the policy 
he adopted. 

At the end of that campaign, the leaders of the party whose 
cause he espoused, and led on to a signal victory, wholly repudi- 
ated, and even openly wronged him, for the Chairman of the 
Pilgrimage Committee even took from him the sum of sixteen 
dollars, which had been given him by persons before whom he 
had spoken, — on the ground that "all contributions were Pil- 
grimage funds," and yet this self-same "Loyal" Holyoke lawyer 
enriched himself from the spoils of that self-same campaign. 
This experience of Radical politics disgusted Randolph, and he 
withdrew from the soiled pack, never again to be counted in. 

After abandoning politics, Mr. R. took up his residence 
in Boston, Mass., since when all or nearly all, his time has been 
mainly employed in the practice of medicine and publication 
of various remarkable books now before the world ; he having for 
a time, if not forever, entirely withdrawn from the lecturing field. 

The originals of the following letters, with hundreds more 
of like import, are in Mr. Randolph's possession, and fully settle 
the character of his works, even more fully than do the Press 
notices, for these last may be interested; not so the purchasers 
of the works. 

FLORENCE, Kansas, August 12, 1871. 

I have read your "Dealings with 
the Dead" (before the work "Soul World" was enlarged) ; 
"The Master Passion," "Disembodiment of Alan" and I wish 
I could find words to fully express my opinion in regard to them. 
I was unutterably, profoundly, and grandly astonished. They 
lifted my soul to the highest ideas of the grandeur and glory of 
truths of which the world had never dreamed would be seen as 
they are today, — so simply grand and natural they carry an ir- 
resistible conviction along with them, which nothing can trample 
upon, — so entirely original and sublime. The truths loom up in 
such beautiful and gigantic proportions over those of all the 
dusty past; shedding a magnificent light over the cloudy pres- 
ent, and carrying with them a secret and almighty power, which 
will be felt, and seen, and acknowledged, as bright, burning 
stars of the first magnitude, when this present age shall be con- 
signed to a past eternity, and thousands of what are called 
truths to-day shall be buried in oblivion. No other man can 



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write such books ; no other author ever produce their equals, — no 
other can, — I will except none. I do not want to read Sweden- 
borg any more, or any other "Philosopher" on "Life and Death." 
To me, your wonderful clairvoyant powers have given to the 
world the nearest approximation to the truths of mysteries of 
life and death, — of the wonderful origin and destiny of men, — 
of any one the world has ever seen. These expressions of mine 
are the sincere feelings of my heart. I am no dissembler or 
puffer. God knows I believe what I have written. I wish a 
copy of your works was in every household in the civilized 
world. I want to get a copy of every other work you have writ- 
ten. 

With sincere feelings of regard, I remain your friend and 
well-wisher, WM. MAGOON. 

CHICAGO, July 10, 1869. 
Dear R. — Good news at hand, — brighter days before you — 
the peerless Randolph! I have read your "Love and its Hid- 
den History." It is grand, beautiful. There is music in each 
idea; there is a Boston Peace Jubilee tone in all your utterances 
therein. Some of it is transcendantly grand! Go on, I say. — 
From John Francis, sub-Editor Religio-Philosophic Journal. 

SHELBURNE FALLS, Mass., Oct. 3, 1870. 
Dr. P. B. Randolph:— 

Heaven bless thee, noble soul, toling for hunmanity, strug- 
gling to pierce the mists that cover like a cloud, earth's purblind 
pilgrims! From thine own rich soul-life hast thou wrought 
works that shall adorn the ages yet to be; crown thy name im- 
mortal! . . . Beautiful indeed must be the soul 
from whence emanate such grand and mighty truths; wrought 
out, as I feel they must be, from the blackened fire-crypts of a 
disappointed soul's most fervent aspirations. 

O brave and noble worker! I find no words in which 
to express my admiration for one who has spoken such glad 
words to my soul and to humanity. Yes, spoken, for while I 
read, you are beside me, my hand is clasped in yours, and each 
idea, painted in such glowing words, thrills my whole being as 
though I listened to the strong, magnetic tones falling in rich 
cadences from thy lips. Oh, how my heart went out to thee — 
"lone toiler in a garret" — as I read "Love's Hidden History" 



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and "After Death." Every word seemed spoken to my soul, 
and I thought, oh, would that it might some day be mine to 
clasp thine hand within my own, and, like a pure and loving 
relative, look into the windows of thy unfathomable soul and 
say: God bless thy grand life! and ever keep ttie rich thoughts 
flowing from thy pure and lofty soul, O genius rare ! God bless 
thy strong, true soul! R. A. COMSTOCK. 

DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 25, 1870. 
Author of Love and its Hidden History: — 

Sir, — I have carefully read this work of yours, and though 
I have read a great deal, I never yet found anybody that can so 
truly and fully describe Woman, — her feelings, emotions, and 
those finer points of her sensitive nature. Believe me, dear sir, 
I appreciate this book more than all others I ever read on the 
subject Woman. In all others there seemed to be something 
lacking — this fills the measure full. Would that I had read 
your glowing book long ago, and that every woman in the broad 
West had it. 

Perfectly ignorant of my woman's nature and true mission 
I blundered into law-permitted pandemonium miscalled "mar- 
riage," for poor clothes, bad food, and worse home — in a word, 
I sold myself to an inhuman brute, in the shape of a man, and 
shape only. Then followed the curse of married concubinage." 
(The rest of this poor soul's letter is too utterly horrible for 
these pages, yet her life is the life of millions, a state of things 
that Mr. Randolph's works are especially aimed against, and 
which his books have done and are doing more to correct than 
those of any other author of the age. ) She concludes as follows : 
— Your book has and will prove a god-send to me. Would I had 
found it sooner. S. A. DOUGLASS. 

BLACKSTONE, Mass., Oct. 3, 1870. 
P. B. R., Sir, — Some two years since I met with something 
from your pen which attracted my attention. While reading it, 
"Love" and "After Death," I seemed to look upon a soul made 
beautiful by association with the spirit of truth, love and for- 
giveness. As by sympathy, I came in closer contact with you, 
I blessed you for what I thus received. Hope, light and joy 
folded their glad wings about my sad spirit, in that hour, and 
whispered to me of a brighter future; as I finished reading my 



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eyes filled with tears. I was glad that you doubted not but that 
the "good was just ahead!" . . . . . I do hope 
that the sun of happiness is shining clearly upon your pathway 
to-day .... At times I nerve myself to scale 
the glorious heights to which you have attained, yet I often falter 
in my human weakness, and sometimes fear I shall never gain 
your summit, whose atmosphere is heavenly peace; yet your 
words have not lost their power to cheer me on to the endeavor 
to reach the fruit which crowns the tree of suffering. I studied 
your work, "Love and Its Hidden Mystery," with the greatest 
interest. "Silence is power," yet I cannot refrain from tendering 
to you my heartfelt thanks for thus blessing others with the 
noble truths which a life's experience have bestowed upon you. 
I have many times wished to clasp hands with the author of 
those rare and splendid works — works which will prove the sal- 
vation of every wife, and the making and ennobling of every 
husband who reads them. N. A. PALMER. 

Now, when it is remembered that the identical works — 
hundreds more enconiums upon which can be produced — were 
made the handle of a bitter, vindictive and unmanly attack upon 
the author, for the deliberate and expressed purpose of depriving 
him of his copyrights of the same, the full object of this broch- 
ure and the following narration will be fully seen, and the 
author, who was deprived of every copy of his works, thrown 
into a dungeon, kept there in horror till his lips froze, and until 
a righteous judge ordered his instant liberation, without so much 
as an examination. But before the doors opened his capital was 
reduced to the sum of twenty cents. Hence he appeals to the 
public to buy his works, new editions of which he has been en- 
abled to print, and thereby help him to once more establish his 
publishing house and gain a merited victory over the two bad 
men, — one of whom is over seventy years of age, worth a hundred 
thousand dollars, yet ordered this attack upon a poor and de- 
fenceless man and his child, — and with the second of whom the 
author freely shared his last dollar and last crust of bread. 

Said an able writer, in the columns of a powerful eastern 
journal, speaking of one of the works : — 

I write this article not as a criticism nor as a review of the 
above entitled work, but as a tribute to one who asks no tribute, 



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if I may so judge by the nom de plume behind which the author 
hides. The subject matter of the volume is that which the great 
Author of Nature has written in letters of blood in every human 
heart. Why such false modesty — on this subject so fraught with 
human weal or woe — which characterizes almost all writers and 
teachers of the age? The author of this book is an exception to 
the rule ; and yet, not a word or an insinuation, in this work, can 
be found to shock the sensibilities of the most fastidious. He 
has dipped his pen deep into the cankering, festering heart of 
society, and with its corruption written words in which an angel 
might take pride, were it not for the picture which stands out 
before you as you read, in all its ghastliness, over which the good 
can only weep. Oh ! for millions, that I might place this gem — 
fresh from out the thickening clouds of humanity's frailties, all 
pure as the snow-flake from wintry storms — in the hands of the 
heart-reft on every hand. 

The heart alone can write of and for the heart. The great 
heart — which prompted the glowing sentences therein written, 
whose life-history one glimpses faint and shodowy beyond the 
surface of its prolific pages — has throbbed to the music of its 
own and other's anguish — has sickened at the greed and ingrati- 
tude, the unfeeling rush and scramble, and trampling down of 
torn and bleeding hearts — until he has turned away from the 
world, all forgetful of the greatest benefactors, and in solitude 
showers upon his enemies thoughts such as only the great and 
good can think. 

This greatest thought — that which the world will yet build 
monuments to — is not so much the corruption and abuses of so- 
ciety, as it is the remedies of the gigantic evils which stare civi- 
lization and heaven out of countenance. 

Religion has yet to learn the fact, which science is slowly 
demonstrating, and which the author claims in reference to love 
— that salvation must be physical and mental as well as spirit- 
ual. There can be no half-way work about it. We are as much 
physical as spiritual, and so long as we remain so, we must have 
a body, mind and spirit, the same as now, only perhaps in a 
differet condition. 

Love will have its physical moods and modes as well as 
spiritual. The basis of love is health, and health depends upon 
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From palpable facts we reach the hidden. Through the body we 
reach the mind, and through its crystal walls the spirit. Spirit 
is God. It rules the world, and in us, our own minds, and 
through these our bodies. Power of spirit depends upon purity. 
How can a pure spirit control and use a body loaded down with 
the filth and rubbish of false conditions? False conditions are 
results of our own follies and crimes. So with diseases of the 
body. I am well aware there is a great hue-and-cry about "ante- 
natal conditins," etc.; but I have yet to learn that the child in 
embryo is not the cause of the peculiarities of the mother while 
bearing it; but in either case, we who love and loathe cannot 
shirk the responsibilities and penalties of our acts, no matter 
how caused. The measure of humanity is love — not the bastard 
thing society calls love — founded upon physical health and pur- 
ity. How many are truly human? The measure of Godhood 
in man is his power of self-control. How many are there who 
are not blown here and there, like dry leaves in autumn, by 
trifles beneath the notice of a great mind? Tormented to dis- 
traction about a new dress, or for the want of something your 
more fortunate neighbor has ! and making a hell of your home, 
where heaven, all smiles and joy, should sit all the year round. 
How devoid of manhood to go home nervous and sour because, 
forsooth, some one has overreached or thwarted you in your busi- 
ness! 

All there is of us worth immortality, worth preserving and 
presenting to the Infinite, is our will power; which must begin 
at home, if at all. By virtue of will we control ourselves; and 
when we are perfect masters of ourselves — our passions, thoughts, 
desires, etc., we are masters of God's universe of lesser Nature. 
How many are presentable? How many can truly say, in the 
face of adverse storms, and feel what they say, "Let the winds 
blow high or low, and let the muttering thunders of evil roll, 
and the lightnings glare, I am superior to all this! Do your 
worst — I am here first!" 

Reader do you know how to culture will? what to eat and 
drink to become superior physically? how to think to become so 
mentally? what to do to become pure spiritually? If not, read 
"Love and its Hidden History," and if you are sensible, you will 
be a wiser and a better man. 

Disease and Purity are antagonists, — they are strangers. Do 



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not think that Death is going to do for you what you neglect to do 
for yourself. He that dies of disease awakens on the other 
side similarly situated. Summer-land! Stop, reader, and for 
your own sake, think! Is pleasure derived from external ob- 
jects ? If so, then you are rotten within. We make our summer 
and winter ourselves, and you and I are to-day as much in the 
Summer-land as we ever will be. Spirit-world! Here is the 
spirit-world. Eternity. To-day is eternity. Disease and the 
kingdom of rest are as far apart in condition as the frozen north 
from the sunny south. A healthy mind in an impure or diseased 
body is an impossibility. A diseased Christian Is as far from 
heaven as the devil and hell can be. Christ's religion was that 
of manhood and health, not of weakness and disease. 

To the wives and mothers of the age this work comes, — so 
full of plain home talk which all can understad ; so full of coun- 
sel, and tears, which only experience can give, and hearts wrung 
by agony can know — like angels' footfalls in the shadows of evil. 
In reading it, see the sunken rocks and the deceitful sands 
whereon hearts, like ships, have stranded. 

The sunken cadaverous cheek speaks volumes of heartaches, 
and reminds one of a stagnant pool of water, within which lies 
the skeleton of dear love, long since dead and sunken there, 
sending up to the surface the scum and slime indicative of de- 
cay and corruption, redolent of mental and moral disease. It is 
contagious. We breathe it in as we do the atmosphere. Dear 
little children, all innocent and pure (if there is any purity in 
mankind), are most in this disease-inducing malaria. Is it 
surprising, then, that society is so corrupt, so full of crime and 
folly? She or he who only open their eyes and mouths to look 
at what has been, and lament and moan for lost opportunities, 
or to blame some one beside themselves for their present evil; 
who always see a skeleton in the closet at home; forget that the 
skeleton walks out when they do, which looks strangely like 
themselves. To all such I say, read the book. It is "the voice of 
one crying in the wilderness." 

I quote still another article: — 

THE THINKER AND HIS THOUGHT. (12) 
By F. D. Dowd. 
There is but little thought among the world of men. The 



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great stream rushes on, in murmuring rivulets here, in roaring 
torrents there, or like the ocean billows breaking upon the bar- 
ren shore in deafening thunders, devoid of thought. The thun- 
ders, the roaring, the murmuring of men, is not of thought, but 
of money. In every age of the world the genuine thinker has 
stood alone, like a solitary tree in the vast desert. His thought 
has seemed to shroud him from other men, as with the pall of 
ages. There is another class, however, who are called thinkers, 
and are lauded to the skies as geniuses, who stand in a different 
relationship to the mass of men. These are poets and philoso- 
phers, who fashion and mould thought for their own time. 
Such cull the flowers of existence, and, having arrayed them in 
garbs angelically lovely, in their view, present them for the ac- 
ceptance and adoration of the non-thinkers. But the real thinker 
exhumes the primitive rocks of man's existence and basic na- 
ture, and lays bare the native granite of his nature, wonderful 
and kaleidscopic, which he exposes to the softening influences 
of storm and sunshine. It matters not to him, if the excavation 
be deep, or the rocks be rough and ill-shapen; it is his mission to 
bring them to the surface. He is not unlike the insect which, 
in the bottom of old ocean, rears its domes of rocks, whose only 
music is the roar of the rushing waves and the dashing of spray 
against its edifice; for he hath builded a temple of unhewn rocks, 
of Infinite Thought, wherein he dwells alone; and which, like 
the cities of pearl in the deeps of the sea, shall yet be the foun- 
dations of a new continent of thought; shall yet be engrafted 
in the temples wherein the teeming myriads of remote ages shall 
worship. His thought has not been of his own seeking. It comes 
upon him as comes the hurricane upon the landscape, or over the 
calm breast of the slumbering sea. It sometimes lays him low 
and desolate, in +he filth and debris of isolation, misapprehensior, 
misery, and decay; and at other times it carries him upon the 
lightning's wing, beyond the topmost clouds of the thinker's 
world. 

"Foremost among the real and genuine thinkers of the age, 
stands, one, P. B. Randolph, the author of this astounding and 
magnificent volume. Among them, but not of them. A mystic 
in the true sense of the word, and a mystic of the very loftiest 
order. 

"To him, the great surging waves of this civilization hath 



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brought only woe. But they have not destroyed him, nor his 
work. From the depths of his great heart, from the garrets of 
poverty, hath he sent his riches of thought, — which the world in 
its barrenness could not understand, or appreciate, — broadcast 
upon the ice-locked wastes. To him, the specious sophistries of 
the day have been only the pulings of infancy. Forgetful of the 
little present; in view of the dead past, with its myriad eyes all 
faded and lustreless, gazing out of the thickening night of decay 
at him; forgetful of the shining orbs of the o'erarching skies of 
to-day; in view of the darkened stars and dead worlds of the 
foretime, which once blazed with pristine splendor, — he hath 
walked alone among the catacombs of Egypt, and questioned her 
ruins, her pyramids, her temples, and her drifting sands, and 
brought back her answer, which he has given to the world, a 
priceless legacy, under the title of Treadamite Man,' — beyond 
all question, the most exhaustive, profound, convincing and sat- 
isfactory work upon human antiquity the world ever saw, or 
will again for many and many a long decade. Rested he then, 
after completing his great wcrk on the Human Origines? Nay; 
but casting it at the feet of the world, — dedicating it, by direct 
request, to his personal friend, and the friend of mankind, the 
lamented Abraham Lincoln, — he, discouraged on all hands by 
ungenerous rivalry and envy, forthwith applied the whole power 
of his exhaustless mind to the solution of a still mightier prob- 
lem; and with fearless tread, lighted only by the lamp of God, 
he entered the gloomiest crypts of being, and dragged from the 
portals of the tomb its reluctant answer to the great question, 
which hath burst the hearts of men from earliest time: "If a man 
die, shall he live again?" In doing which he died to the present, 
as much so as they whom he questioned. This man hath not 
sought in college halls for the thoughts of the mighty dead, but 
with his unaided hand hath he held aside the curtain that hides 
the past, — walked through the shadow, and talked face to face 
with the glorious founders of earth's religions, — stood dazed 
and appalled before the effulgent glories of Rosicrucia' s blazing 
temples in the hierarchies of the skies; and bowed low in the 
shining presences of those whose spectra we sometimes vaguely 
glimpse. 

"Freighted with gems from the golden shores of eternity, and 
jewels from the crowns of the upper hosts in the farther heav- 



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ens — returning — he hath cast them also at our feet in his two 
works : 'Dealings with the Dead/ and 'Disembodied Man,' either 
of which works are sufficient to rest the fame of any man upon, — 
no matter how profound a thinker, or expert a fashioner of 
Thought, — and I here assert without fear of contradiction, that 
these two works of rare and impassioned genius, in their scope 
and profound simplicity, yet majestic and surpassing range and 
sweep of thought, are not equalled by any other similar works in 
existence! — and they have made, and are still making, their 
mark, and influencing the thought and literature of the age, in 
spite of prolonged and envious efforts to hurl them down to 
death. They still live, thank God ! to bless the world and instruct 
mankind. 

"Not satisfied with this, and hearing much talk of a hell, he 
sought and found its adamantine walls, all charred and black- 
ened with the smoke of eternal torment, and, bursting through, 
stood undismayed amid the howling of demons and the shrieks 
and groans of the lost, — walked unscathed amid its fiercest 
flames, and dragged from its darkened caverns, the idea itself, 
and showed it to the gaping herd, — the uncharitable, ungrate- 
ful, unthinking, forgetful world — which starved him for his 
pains — to be only in the miseducated human heart. This he has 
demonstrated in answer to the groans of the civilized world 
under the curse of 'the social evil' in his two last master-pieces, 
called 'Love and its Hidden History,' and 'The Master Passion; 
or, The Curtain Raised.' Here he has lifted the sacred veil be- 
fore which the civilized world bows down and worships, and 
calls the hand profane and unclean which dares disturb. Here 
he has told us the hidden meaning of 'the sin against the Holy 
Ghost,' which, according to one of the earth's greatest thinkers 
is unpardonable. 

"By a mistaken policy Mr. Randolph was induced to issue 
his second volume on Human Affection (his first was 'The 
Grand Secret,' now out of print) — under a nom de plume, — 
'Count de St. Leon.' He subsequently saw his error in that re- 
spect, made several alterations, and enlarged it somewhat, and 
was preparing to issue another edition when a seeming accident, 
but in reality a providence, gave birth to another masterly vol- 
ume on the same theme: 'The Master Passion; or, the Curtain 
Raised,' and also determined him to publish both works, there- 



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after, under his own name, and with his own imprint thereon. 

"The circumstance here alluded to, it is not necessary to 
mention further than to say that the Preface of 'Love and its 
Hidden History,' was taken from the volume after it was printed; 
but, as was said before, that rejected stone — that unfortunate 
preface — grew into the most perfect and comprehensive volume 
on human love that ever saw the light on this green earth of ours. 
Now both volumes are published within one cover, and no work 
of the century is creating a greater interest, being more widely 
circulated or doing half the good that it is, and it should be in 
the hands of every man, woman, and child in the land; for if it 
were, 'twere well for the world. 

"These volumes comprise but a few of those written by Mr. 
Randolph; but, owing to their trenchant power and reformatory 
character, I regard them as the most important of those now in 
print. 

"Says John B. Pilkington, of San Francisco, California, 
in a communication to a Boston paper, under date of Nov. 21, 
1861:— (13) 

" 'One after another has visited our shores, of the army of 
Humanity's teachers, and last, but far from least, came P. B. 
Randolph, and of him — as an acknowledgement of his services, 
gratifying to his many friends, but more because knowledge of 
the noble self-sacrifice of any person should be the world's prop- 
erty, as an example — I wish here to speak. We may praise, for 
he has gone again, sailing this morning via New York, — where 
he will make but a very short stay, for Egypt, Persia, and the 
Orient. 

" 'Arriving here on the 5th of Sept., this strange (to those 
who have not studied him) and gifted man has compressed into 
ten weeks a work which many a man would be proud to achieve 
in a lifetime. He has written two small, but important works, 
delivered something like twenty lectures, or orations rather, and 
the universal testimony of friends and foes of Liberalism is, that 
no speeches ever given on this coast have equalled them for 
scope, power, and eloquence. 

" 'Pouring forth the tale of his own trials, temptations, 
falls, and efforts to rise again, he has carried conviction to many 
an obdurate heart that there cometh much good out of every 
Nazareth, but especially out of Imperial Rosicurcia! Many a 



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narrow-minded bigot who listened to him, at first under protest, 
has had his soul expanded, and openly declares, "Where I was 
blind before, now I see!" He was some little time in gaining a 
foot-hold; but did it. Large-hearted, condemning none, speak- 
well of all, and speaking just the needed words to all, his rooms 
and places of resort became daily a crowded levee, where, as he 
felt their needs, he dispensed intellectual, moral, and material 
healing to those who asked for it. Pecuniary success rained in 
upon him. Friendships clustered warm around him, yet, strange 
to say, when everything that makes life pleasant was being lav- 
ishly offered him, he electrified us by telling us that he had re- 
ceived commands to depart! Refusing money (the writer is 
cognizant of sums having been offered him varying from twenty 
to two hundred dollars, and in one case thousands of dollars) 
with the words, "I am a Rosicrucian, and cannot accept money; 
keep it. All I want will come as I need it;" untwining the daily 
deepening associations forming to keep him here; putting back 
fraternal love strong as that of woman's heart — with tears in his 
eyes, sorrow in his heart, he has gone on a journey of over thirty 
thousand miles, for two years in strange lands among inhospit- 
able solitudes. And all for an idea. He went to seek more light, 
who was already universal in knowledge, and beyond all rivalry 
the first, best, and most clear-viewing seer and clairvoyant on the 
globe. 

" 'Let no one hereafter condemn P. B. Randolph. He is a 
self-sacrificing, grand, moral hero! God bless you, Paschal! 
And hundreds now, and thousands hereafter, will echo the bene- 
diction. You have commenced a work here that is already as- 
sured of immortality, and let it comfort you in all your wander- 
ings that through you, "Try," the motto of every Rosicrucian, 
will have a power, a moral and mental influence never before 
possessed by word of angel or mortal utterance.' 

"He has not yet finished his literary labors, but is already 
engaged upon a massive work called 'The Book of Rosicrucia' 
(14) written at (the instance of the Supreme Grand Lodges of 
the Order in America, Europe, and Asia. 

"When ready the world will be informed of the fact. 

"Toil on, O genius rare! Toil on, brave thinker ! Bow low 
thy head before the mighty thoughts which crowd upon thee — 
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Thought. Toil on ! thou knowest not why ! Yet thou rearest here, 
and now, the Dome of thought of the great hereafter of the 
world ! What matter the mad ravings of the multitude to thee ? 
They yet — those others who come after — shall build monuments 
on thy footprints, and use as text-books thy works in Rosicrucia's 
glorious temples yet to be! 

''Davenport, Iowa, Jan., 1870." 

Says a very prominent and able Pennsylvania government 
officer : — 

"Messrs. Editors: — I have just perused a work published 
by Randolph & Co., of Boston, and advertised in your columns, 
entitled 'Love and its Hidden History; a book for man, woman, 
wives and husbands.' The gratification and benefit derived from 
its perusal prompted me to express my satisfaction and testify 
to the value of so worthy a book, whose object seems devoted to 
the repression of vice, to give light on a much misunderstood 
subject and unmask the growing charlatanry of the present day. 
The author is especially severe on abortionists, the slayers of the 
innocents. He handles his subject with a masterly hand; his 
thoughts are skilfully and graphically portrayed, and his expres- 
sions are given in a lucid, concise manner which cannot fail to 
carry conviction of the facts, unfolded to the mind of the reader 
and thinker, at the same time giving the subject treated or an in- 
tense interest; hence no doubt of the wide popularity of his book 
among the people, and especially is it commendable to all per- 
sons about entering the married state. It is certainly a treasure 
in the hands of everybody having an ounce of common sense. 
The second part is better than the first — if that is possible,, — and 
the work ought to be in the hands of every intelligent human be- 
ing." 

Said the Banner of Light, Boston: — 
"Love and its Hidden History." Boston: Randolph & Co. 

We have referred to this truly remarkable book in a pre- 
vious issue. The first thing that will strike the readers on its 
perusal is the bold clearness with which its author gives forth 
and impresses his profoundly important truths; which is to be 
explained by understanding that they are originally impressed 
themselves upon a mind of wonderful capacity and susceptibil- 
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perhaps the most engrossing problem that has man for its ob- 
ject, the author naturally pours out a superfluity of statements 
and inferences, which, though by no means diluting and weak- 
ening his meaning, nevertheless go to show the fulness of his 
thoughts and the force of his convictions. It is certainly a good 
symptom in a writer on any but a strictly scientific subject, that 
requires to be treated after scientific methods; but on such a 
grand and engrossing theme as Love and its Hidden History, it 
were well-night impossible to be satisfied with less than a lux- 
uriant discussion, provided the force and weight of the argu- 
ment be not weakened thereby. 

"There is no person, of either sex, let his or her age, condi- 
tion, acquirements, experience, temperament, wisdom and desires 
be what they may, who, on plunging into the deep, suggestive 
growths which these prolific pages are sure to beget, will not find 
the precise tree, bearing the precise fruit of which he or she is 
in secret quest. Would one understand the scope and true 
meaning of love and marriage, considered in its exalted sense, 
and clothed upon with its highest significations? On these 
pages he will discover what will lead to his illumination. Would 
one know more, and more truly, of the nice yet exacting physical 
laws, which are to be religiously consulted and obeyed in the 
engagements that yoke bodies and souls in a double life for the 
term of their natural existence? Here is the treasury of infor- 
mation which he or she cannot afford to be without, presented 
with the plainness of simple truth, preaching the most powerful 
sermon by its practical, every-day suggestiveness, and demon- 
strating that what we commonly regard as the lower are as much 
the highest as any that we call such. 

"They who pine from heart-sickness, from soreness of 
thought, from a continual inability to find the secret cause of 
incompatibilities, who feel life waste slowly yet without their 
ability to save it from the loss, who are unhappy in present re- 
lations but know not precisely why, or, if they know, cannot 
employ and apply the remedies which such disease requires, who, 
needing love as we all need food and drink, nevertheless go 
about starving and dying, who would comprehend the secret — 
yet no such secret either — of building up a robust condition of 
the spirit by means of the all-pervading power of affection and 
attraction — all these will resort to the pages of this volume with 



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the certainty of finding upon them what will excite the grateful- 
est emotions of their nature. 

"We have no space for the quotations which we should like 
to make from this timely publication, and which we had ex- 
pected to make ; out this general notice of its meritorious qualities 
must stand for all. Let no reader, however, infer that it is a 
dreamy rhapsodical, sentimental and merely effervescent book, to 
excite or even exalt, and afterwards to be forgotten. On the 
contrary, it treats the great question involved with a scientific 
precision as a whole; abounds with the most pertinent and 
pointed reflections; is full of practical advice and directions; 
addresses itself personally to the reader; shrinks from the dis- 
cussion of no phase or portion of the subject, and worthily 
handles, as it exhaustively treats, a general problem in which 
every individual of the human race is personally and profoundly 
interested, in immediate connection with his health and happi- 
ness." 

Also the same paper: — 

u Seer ship; The Magnetic Mirror, is the title of a curious 
but impressive book by P. B. Randolph, which well deserves 
perusal for the variety of views it presents with such energetic 
eloquence on the subject of clairvoyance and psychometry. It no 
doubt contains very many important truths in regard to clair- 
voyance, with which it is essential that the world should become 
familiar. The method of developing and establishing the clair- 
voyant faculty, of knowing, as well as feeling and seeing, is en- 
larged upon in the gifted author's peculiar manner. He defines 
clairvoyance as the ability to drop beneath the floors of the 
outer world and come up on the other side. He says that the 
sparks or flashes of light that come before us in the night are 
not what they seem, but instantaneous penetrations of the veil 
that hangs like a pall between the outer world of dark and cold, 
and the inner realm of light and fire — true clairvoyance being 
the uplifting of that veil. Clairvoyance is neither a lure nor a 
trap for virtue, nor calculated to undermine the religious prin- 
ciples of any one, nor to sap one's morals, or exhaust one's 
strength; but it is a very rich and valuable power, and its de- 
velopment depends on the observance of the normal laws that 
underlie it. Dr. Randolph has devoted his life to the discovery 
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his work to show men and women how they may become strong, 
clear-seeing and powerful. Clairvoyance, in his view, is simply 
the light that the seer reaches through years of agony; the inter- 
rior unfoldment of native powers, and the comprehension and 
application of the principles that underlie and overflow human 
nature and the physical universe, together with a knowledge of 
the principia of the vast spirit-seas whereon the world of space 
are cushioned. 

"There are long and profoundly interesting extracts from 
Madame George Sand in this book, which illustrate very forcibly 
the views of the author. On the subject of the Platonic philoso- 
phy of vision, he holds it to be the view of objects really existing 
in interior light, which assume form — not according to arbitrary 
laws, but according to the state of the mind. This light unites 
with exterior light in the eye, and is thus drawn into a senuous, 
or imaginative activity; but when the outward light is separated 
it reposes in its own serene atmosphere. And it is in this state 
of interior repose that all really inspired and correct visions oc- 
cur. In the author's language this light is the foundation fire 
upon which all things are builded, ambushed everywhere, burst- 
ing out when least expected, slumbering for ages, yet suddenly 
illuminating an inebriate's brain so that he shall see the moral 
snakes and lavre of his perversion assume physical proportion 
and magnitude to fright him back to temperance, virtue, and 
his forsaken God.' He declares the world we live in to be 'full 
of the pattering of ghostly feet and the music of spiritual sing- 
ers.' The author discourses pithily on the universal passion of 
Love, and shows how the white woman, in his opinion, knows 
less of the foundation laws of love than the inhabitants of the 
Eastern countries and Southern Europe. There are certainly 
glimpses of great truths to be met with on these pages, which 
cannot but take powerful hold on the reader." 

Said the Chicago R. P. "Journal:"— 

"This book, on account of its intrinsic merit, should be in 
the hands of every one whose soul-chords vibrate with emotions 
of love. It is not the result of a flash from some fevered brain, 
but the ultimatum of careful study and reflection, and, therefore, 
its contents are entitled to that respect which truth always com- 
mands. Love, which invades every human heart, is sometimes 
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count of the true nature of the same being but little understood. 
The author, fully appreciating this fact, gives full directions for 
its control, in chaste and beautiful language, which cannot fail 
to be well received by the reader. 

"You who have a daughter just blooming into womanhood, 
or a son just venturing on the active stage of life, should pur- 
chase this book at once, for it might be the means of saving 
either a great deal of misery. 

"Speaking of the 'street walker,' the author beautifully 
says : — 

"Of all God's creation the most pitiful object. 

"Of all God's creation, the most sorry and the most sacred 
object. 

"Of all beings made in the divine likeness, given a sense 
of immortality, an eye for the stars of midnight and the sun at 
noon, an ear for the murmur of the spring, and the deep cry of 
the mighty sea, rocked babe of the Great Mother, given a voice 
for the utterance of the things of the heart, — the one only whose 
eyes are never turned to heaven, whose ears are sealed to the 
spheral sounds, whose voice untuned, rattles over a dry bed. 

"Of all a little lower than the angels, the only one that 
wants the death of any brute. The only one — our Father help 
her! — that would have no flowers pointing with fragrance to 
her grave, no stone to stay the stranger's heel from trampling 
down her dust. Only to lie quietly, never to wake when this is 
over. 

"The street walker haunts all the places of men. The city 
with its walls so high that they veil the face of the sun, with 
stones that never cry out, and mingled sounds that drown the 
still small voice, is her only home. She has a memory of an- 
other scene, now and then. While it is light, and she lurks in 
her covert, shrinking from the searching eye of day, it sometimes 
crosses her mind, — a still and peaceful land, — cape, fields, a 
brook, a white church, a cottage with the vines about it, and 
there, under the tall trees before the door, with the sunset touch- 
ing his thin face with glory, and the pleasant air blowing through 
his white hair, an old man foundling a child upon his knee, a 
child whose large eyes are turned trustful and truthful into his, 
and whose golden tresses embrace his neck. But she curses 
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"There is a vein of beauty running through the deep phil- 
osophy of this book, that points to a soul as it author, whose 
chords vibrate lovingly for all humanity, and who would aid 
them by directing them in the true pathway of life. 

"In the conclusion of the first part of the book the author 
says : — 

" Tn conclusion, let me say, that while contending for the 
materiality of love, I do not deny the existence of a moral force 
somewhat analogous. They call this force religion, and its 
domain is the human soul, just as love is in the human body. 
We shall outlive all earthly loves and all earthly unions; for 
the only mission of love is to stock the world. To that country 
where we go at death, we shall carry our religion, our hopes, 
affections, memories, faith, justice, pity, benevolence, generosity, 
and goodness; but purely earthly phases of love are felt behind. 
We shall no longer fall before it, no longer struggle in its toils — 
no longer be led astray by its falsehoods, or be pierced by its 
arrows. When I get there, I expect to grow new loves, fitted and 
adapted to the new conditions. When there, it will be time 
enough to exercise my "divine loves and nature," for there, per- 
haps they will be needed; but while here our time is best em- 
ployed in purifying the every-day human lives, and cultivating 
and cleansing the human loves. Philosophers may call us all 
by the title "angel;" perhaps they are such, but as for me, I 
am only a poor, weak, fallible, erring man' " 

" 'Love and its Hidden history," "I have just finished read- 
ing the book entiled 'Love and its Hidden History,' and I believe 
it contains more real truths and common sense, than any other 
work of its size in the universe. Everybody should read it as it 
reveals the cause and prescribes the remedy for the most fruit- 
ful source of human misery, viz. : family jargon and unhappi- 
ness and quarrels. None can read it without being benefited." 

Simon Emery, of West Pittsfield, Mass., says: — "I have 
just been reading the book 'Love and its Hidden History,' also 
the work entitled 'After Death.' I think if one hundred thou- 
sand of these volumes could be distributed through the United 
States, it would be a far greater benefit to the people than the 
thirty thousand preachers." 

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action, and the millions who have heard him will say the pictures 
are not overdrawn: — 

Dr. Randolph delivered an oration to a vast and attentive 
audience. . . . This magnificent effort at once 

places him, not only in the front rank of American speakers, 
but gives him a prominent position among the world's best 
thinkers. Such splendid eloquence was never before heard with- 
in the walls of that grand old hall. — New York Tribune. 

He combines the excellence of Gough and Harry Vincent, 
but is a far greater orator than either ; more pathetic, vigorous and 
powerful; he is a complete and absolute master of his art, and 
decidedly the equal, if not the superior of his great relative, John 
Randolph, of Roanoke. — Alta Calif ornian. 

He is a thrilling speaker, — sublimely eloquent, — entertain- 
ing an audience at will : man of rare power. — Whiteside Sentinel. 

Dr. Randolph, at the Loyal Philadelphia Convention, made 
by far the most able address delivered before that body. — Chi- 
cago Times. 

In its report of the Philadelphia Convention the "Cincin- 
nati Commercial" says: — 

"The delegate from North Carolina was followed by Mr. 
Randolph, of New Orleans, who, not content to speak from his 
place on the floor, rushed to the president's desk, and delivered 
from there one of the most effective speeches of the session, — the 
most effective, judging from the thunders of applause which 
greeted every sentence. As he appealed in behalf of the op- 
pressed for the right of suffrage as a reward for what they had 
done in the war, and said they demand suffrage in return for 
their sacrifices, the audience rose en masse to cheer him. Fred 
Douglass was so excited that he seized Anna Dickinson' s Derby 
hat and flung it into the air, and Anna in her turn grabbed, 
Fred's beaver and whirled it triumphantly aloft." 

Every true man and woman will hail with joy the begin- 
ning of the Grand Reaction against extreme Radicalism of all 
sorts, and especially when that reaction is led by such a power 
as this man wields — a trenchant pen and words of living flame. 

Dr. Randolph is one of the first orators in this or any other 
country. — Chicago Republican. 

In his address there were passages of strength and beauty. 
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terribly vivid and appalling. After listening to Randolph, it 
is easy to conceive why Felix trembled before the Hebrew Paul, 
and how the noble Greek stirred the sluggish souls of his peo- 
ple, or Patrick Henry wrested the brightest jewel from the Brit- 
ish Crown, or how the mighty Indian, Logan, — from whom Mr. 
Randolph is descended, — roused his people to resistance. — Lon- 
don Weekly Times. (15) 

This Randolph is a most extraordinary man, in appear- 
ance and everything else. He reminds one of Gavazzi, the Ex- 
Priest, and in many points Gaspar Williams, the Controversialist. 
He is self-taught and brimful of the genuine spirit of philan- 
thropy; such power as he evinces is absolutely astounding; a 
thin, spare man, unhealthy, apparently, and physically weak. 
But wait awhile till he warms up, rouses, — precisely as he did 
last night; then it was, that we found out the mistake, for the 
energy he displayed was wonderful, as, steeped to the lips in 
magic thought, he poured forth a stream of eloquence in one 
mighty, relistless torrent that swept all before it, and took all 
who heard it willing captives. It was awful to see him writhe 
in an agony as he seemed to feel what he was describing, — a 
poor misguided man! As thought after thought, climax after 
climax, gushed forth from his lips like a rapid rolling river, we 
felt indeed that a Titan stood before us. — London Times. 

Dr. Randolph delivered his lecture, "The Rum Fiend," in 
Mechanics' Hall last evening to a large audience. The address 
was a stirring delineation of the physical, mental, and moral 
evils of intemperance, in which the speaker's vivid imagination 
and ready command of language found ample scope. — Worcester 
Mass. Spy. 

Douglas Jerrold, in the "London Lloyd's News" said, Mr. 
Randolph spoke on that occasion and drew down the plaudits 
of the large audience by his wonderful eloquence. 
"When by the mighty speaker brought 
Truth's sacred triumphs come, 
Verse ceases to be airy thought, 
And sculpture to be dumb." 

This gentleman may well be called the American Timon, 
for the entertainment last evening was a perfectly rich, a glor- 
ious and long to be remembered feast of fat things ! His theme 
was "Man as he is and is to be." The description of the "Good 



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time coming" was splendid, and as he pictured forth immortal 
man in burning, fiery, passionate words, the audience were elec- 
trified. Such magnificence of imagery, such sublimity of 
thought is almost incredible; nothing ever was seen or heard 
like it before, or ever will be again. It was marvellous, beautiful 
and grand. The speaker occupied an hour, and when, com- 
pletely exhausted, he sat down, the hall resounded for full five 
minutes with the most heartfelt and grateful applause. 

The Wonderful Story of Rav alette. Also, Tom Clark and 
his Wife, and the Curious Things that befell them; being the 
Rosicrucian's Story. My P. B. Randolph, Boston; Randolph 
Publishing Company. 

This is a 12mo, 396 pp., one of the most wonderful books 
we ever read, written in plain, vigorous English, and cannot fail 
to interest any reader who has a love for the marvellous. It is 
more exciting in its incidents than Bulwer's "Strange Story;" 
throws into the shade the writings of the German mystics; and 
yet the thread of the story from beginning to end is never broken 
or stretched beyond the range of probability. Admit the au- 
thor's premises, and he will carry the reader along with him 
through all his strange reasonings and descriptions. As a mere 
story, independent of its peculiar views, it transcends in interest 
all of the mystical literature of the present day. De Foe's 
inimitable "Life of Duncan Campbell" is not more fascinating. 
— Boston Traveller. 

Said the Boston "Traveller": — 

Flermes Mercurius Trismegistus. His Divine Pymander. 
Also, the Asiatic Mystery. The Smaragdine Table and the Song 
of Brahm. Edited by Paschal Beverly Randolph. Published at 
Boston, by the Rosicrucian Publishing Company. This is a 
finely printed volume, large 12mo, of 148 pages; tinted paper. 
In a prefatory note it is stated that the authorship of the Divine 
Poemander is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, who flourished 
in Egypt long before the age of Moses. The work is not only 
valuable for its antiquity, but for the view it affords of the mind 
in the absence of direct revelation, searching after the "unknown 
God," spoken by Paul, whom the Greeks ignorantly worshipped. 
This, as well as other mystical works, shows the necessity of a 
revelation of God in humanity. The mind in its attempt to de- 
fine the Infinite and the unconditioned, has befogged itself with 



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words of learned length, which have not even satisfied those 
who have used them. Learned and devout Christians contend 
that we cannot conceive of any higher being than a man, and of 
any higher man than Christ Jesus, in "whom dwelleth all the 
fulness of the Godhead bodily." In other words that God cloth- 
ed himself with humanity to bring himself down to the appre- 
hension of mankind. By way of contrast to this simple state- 
men of Christian belief, the Pymander, or Poemander, is very 
instructive and suggestive. As a literary curiosity, if nothing 
more, it is worthy a place in every library, and must be very in- 
teresting to those who love the mysterious. 

Said another critic, concerning an oration in Boston, of 
his:— 

His manner of speech, like that of his pen, is unique, 
strange, wholly inartistic and perfectly indescribable. But he 
not only makes you see, hear and feel him, but remember him, 
also, to the last day and hour of your life, even if you stretch it 
out the length of Methusaleh's, of the "crack of doom." Hi9 
manner and style, all his own, differs from that of any speaker I 
ever heard; and as his soul throbs with, and responds to the 
thought, he flushes up red as fire one minute, to turn pale and 
livid as a "sheeted ghost," — used to be, the next. 

At all times eloquent, yet when the fire is on and he throws 
down his glasses on the stand, he is vastly, infinitely more than 
that — he is absolutely grand, terrible, sublime, and he thrills 
you in a measure and intensity never approached by the best 
actors in their finest frenzies, when delivering their best "points." 

He said that if women were as careful in getting clean- 
souled and virtuous, uncontaminated and true husbands, as 
men are in selecting a virtuous wife, a moral reformation would 
soon begin, which would be something more than froth and 
foam. He laughed at the "Reformers," who gained their ends 
by misquoting and torturing Scripture, and said he was sick 
of their new exegesis and readings, and to show them up pro- 
posed, for them, the following reading for the fifteenth and 
sixteenth verses of the one hundred and thirtieth Psalm: "My 
protoplasm was not hidden from thee when, far back in the 
Silurian epoch, I floated on the sea a frilled and flounced 
Medusa. Yea, in ages still more remote, before differentiation 
had begun, thine eyes did see my sarcode, and in thy thought 



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my limbs took form before they were evolved." How strange 
that one who wields such potent weapons should prefer to sleep 
in the shade, instead of rushing out upon the glare of the world 
where so many, less richly endowed, win wealth and fame, for 
it is but seldom he can, for love or money, be tempted away from 
his desk to pace the platforms even for an hour. This orator 
is one who overlooks his contemporaries like some huge moun- 
tain rising from a barren plain, a solitary, desolate, snow-clad 
mountain, but whose brow piercing the heavens catches the glory 
of the sunrises and the roseate flushing of the sunsets ; above all, 
who gave to the world the new, chivalric conception of love as 
existing between man and woman, and a new ideal of woman- 
hood, all these passed in review before us, at his summons; sen- 
tences were almost rhythmic, and they glowed with the impas- 
sioned fervor of his conception of the great poet-orator yet to 
come, who is to chant the now unguessed glories of a purer and 
more perfect civilization, a holier religion, a human brotherhood 
such as the past has never known — this Thinker who shall "fill 
the ideal world with forms of eternal beauty, strew its firma- 
ment with spiritual constellations, with glorious suns and stars, 
of which the splendors of the material universe are but a passing 
symbol." 

Mr. Randolph is continually receiving commeidatory let- 
ters like the following, which speak a language right straight 
from the heart, and not to be mistaken : — 

AMESBURY, Mass., Jan. 18th. 
.... Oh ! It is a heavenly work, and I 
feel as if it should be in the hands of every man and woman. 
Please accept a thousand thanks. It has taught me many a 
noble lesson, and caused me to pass many a happy hour. 

MRS. M. H. PLUNKETT. 
Said the "Democratic Guard," Sunbury, Pa. : — 
Casca Llanna. Recently cur attention was called to the 
above-named work, which we have since read, and we confess 
that the high expectations of it awakened in our mind were more 
than realized. It is truly a wonderful book, and also what its 
name implies, "good news." We feel safe in saying that a care- 
ful and impartial reading of it will help to make better all who 
read it understanding^, and it certainly will teach all teachable 
ones what and where are many, very many, of the breakers on 



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which so many marital barques have been wrecked, and how to 
avoid them; for on its pages are given truths which nearly, if 
not all wedded persons have long felt the force of, though unable 
or unwilling to put them in words. At this time, when domestic 
happiness is so far away from so many firesides, and divorce 
courts are so frequently appealed to, it becomes the duty of all 
who have the best interests of society in view, to inquire for the 
cause, and try to find and apply the remedy. These two objects 
seem pre-eminently to be what the author of "Casca Llanna" 
has aimed at, with what degree of success can be ascertained only 
by a careful perusal of the book. Its style is good, very attractive 
and readable. No novel can be more attractive, and herein 
lies one of the fine features of the book, viz., its attractiveness 
coupled with its truthfulness. No one can take up the book and 
read one page of it without desiring to possess the whole of its 
contents. Its tone is such that none need take offence, while its 
language is so well selected that the moral fabric of the purest- 
minded woman on earth will not be soiled by reading it, much 
less that of any man. We predict for the work an immense sale. 
Some idea of the esteem in which it is held may be formed when 
we state that the author was to be paid nearly forty thousand 
dollars for the monoply. Another feature of the work is its 
cheapness, being only two dollars and a half for a twelve mo 
book of over four hundred pages. 

Society's sins and shortcomings are stripped of their mask, 
that all may see them as they are. 

It is characterized by the critics as a "Bold, Brave Book." 
It is something more: it is a grand, good book! 

The author's pen is a very Damascus blade; and, well in- 
formed of what he writes, his book is a Revelation to all, and a 
Promise to those who will heed. 

To Men and Women alike it has a vital interest. 

Love and the Master Passion. By Paschal B. Randolph. 
Published by P. B. Randolph, Boston, Mass. 

In this curious and rarely original book the author offers 
to the public a powerful argument in favor of Love, the great 
passion that rules the world; and he sets forth its manifold 
charms and necessities in a perfectly irresistible manner, though 
with keen wisdom and wonderful tact. No one can even ramble 
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truth prevails without a cloud to dim its brightness. It may be 
startling and unusual, but fcr all that is more valuable. No am- 
biguous terms hide the author's real meaning, and no attempt is 
made to call things by other than their strong, reliable English 
names, and this is one of the many charms the book possesses. 
The great question that always has and must agitate a thinking 
community is here discussed with philosophic and scientific 
freedom, and the old, though ever new query, "What is love?" is 
answered to a nicety. No one need doubt any more, for Dr. 
Randolph has settled the point to suit every searcher for truth. 
The Dr. is a Rosicrucian and thoroughly lives up to his faith, 
as can plainly be seen in every line of this wonderful work. 
"Love lieth at the foundation of all things," is the motto of his 
order, and how to love and what to love are the lessons he would 
teach humanity. He says : "Woman makes the man, who, in his 
turn, does mighty things," and then proves that the mother ele- 
ment is the stronger in every human being. His suggestion, or 
positive assertion rather, that a heart woman will produce a 
finer and happier piece of mortality than a mere brain woman, is 
worthy contemplation, and gees far to uphold the old saying, 
that "If the heart is right all is right." This book possesses too 
many attractions to single out any for a brief review like this, 
but by applying to the author, a copy can be procured, and the 
pleasant and happy hours a perusal of it must insure, will amply 
repay the small outlay necessary. — Woodhull and Clafin's 
Weekly, Dec. 3, 1870. (16) 

{From the Religio-Philosophical Journal.) 
RANDOLPH AND HIS FRIENDS 
"Jordan is a hard road to travel," especially if the traveler 
happens, as in my case, to be of mixed blood. When I took my 
seat in the great Southern Convention, my troubles began, for 
there were hundreds there who couldn't face the music of any 
sort of equality, between themselves, the tweedledums, and my- 
self, the tweedle-dee. But, for the first time in my life, I found 
I had a "party" at my back so strong, that on a clear vote I could 
have been sustained by a handsome majority; but seeing that 
fact, the weak-kneed didn't choose to try it on with me. And 
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my share of abuse and praise, in alternate slices — a streak of fat 
and a streak of lean — all along the route from Philadelphia, 
making speeches all the way through New York, Connecticut, 
Massachusetts, Ohio. But from the hour that we reached Ohio, 
our chairman and about two others, out of thirty delegates, be- 
gan to doubt the expediency of my continuance with the crowd, 
because I had several drops of foreign blood in my veins, and so 
curious shifts were resorted to by the chairman to get rid of me, 
but as I couldn't see it in that light, I went to Akron, Mansfield 
and Cincinnati, at which place I was treated not only meanly, 
but inhumanly; but it was no go; then, fifteen dollars that had 
been given me to pay my way on the railroad, was taken from 
me by the chairman, compelling me to either use a little money 
given me, or break in upon the fund I had months before col- 
lected for my school. I chose the former, and after speaking in 
Cincinnati, where the chairman had wholly ignored my exist- 
ence, and being serenaded by a splendid band of the first musi- 
cians in the place, I reached Chicago, in the same train with the 
chairman, who repeated his former treatment, and not only ig- 
nored my existence, but asserted that I was not a member of the 
delegation, which allegation the said delegation caused him to 
retract, by gently jogging his memory. It was the same old 
story of the wolf, lamb, and muddy water. But he was still 
more surprised when the people of Illinois insisted that not only 
should I be acknowledged, but assigned to a seat in the first 
carriage, and a place on the first speaker's stand. Even my 
religion has been brought up as an argument against me, as well 
as my hue, and to effect his object, my poor school was with me 
made to suffer, and yet God's justice bloomed through it all, for 
everywhere the people received me as a man, and as the herald 
of the good time coming. A power behind us all has worked the 
thing up in a most miraculous manner, in spite of a thousand ob- 
stacles. 

To the eternal honor of the entire delegation, let me say that 
no man but the chairman treated me unmanfully to my face, 
while many of them, Messrs. Sherwood, Stokes, Tucker, May- 
nard, Fennerty, Hunnicutt, Brownlow, Moss, Hamilton, Griffin, 
Newman, Warmouth and many others, stood by me like men, as 
much for the man as for the mighty principle at issue. I do not 
believe that the chairman's hostility arose from personal motives, 



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but from fear of the precedent and inexpediency. Poor man! 
He's behind the age, for the great heart of the people beats for 
the right, and the masses keep step to the march of truth; as was 
proved here in Chicago, where I spoke to assembled thousands 
on two occasions — the last proving a triumph such as few men 
have in a lifetime. 

I am now sick and weary from overwork, but I thank God 
that devotion to truth has been recognized by the nation; nor 
is this triumph mine, it belong to the people, who now claim me 
for their own, albeit I have been out in the cold for many a long 
year. It is a triumph of the long-enunciated principles of the 
faith I profess, and it is the opening of a new era in the history 
of the nation; for it is decreed that "The hundred dead shall not 
have died in vain; that liberty shall have a new birth; and that 
government for the people, of the people, by the people, shall 
not perish from the earth." Immortal Lincoln! there's a good 
time coming; wait a little longer. 

P. B. RANDOLPH. 

Of course the adverse party rejoiced on account of the rain 
and the absence of the other delegates, but their laughs were 
turned to lugubrious grins of shame and mortification before the 
splendid display of intellect, manhood, statesmanship and ora- 
tory of the speaker of the evening, who, for two hours and a half, 
held the audience — largely composed of our best men, with a 
good sprinkling of opposition, here and there — spell-bound by 
his wonderful eloquence. It w T as no mad appeal to passion, but a 
clear and logical presentation of the mighty issues of the hour; 
and was garnished with electric bursts of impassioned elo- 
quence, and fully justified the "Independent's" recent assertion 
that Mr. Randolph ranks among the first orators of America, 
and can test brains successfully with the best political orators 
extant, and give large odds. — Syracuse Standard. 

Randolph closed in one of his most moving strains of elo- 
quence, peculiar to himself, baffling all report — a portion of the 
audience unbounded in enthusiasm. — Boston Banner of Light. 

Dr. Randolph took the stand in behalf of mankind and 
spoke with earnest emphasis, and in a style that put many to 
blush.— N. Y. Herald. 

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the loyal men and true of Rockford, to listen to the loyal speeches 
of Dr. Randolph and A. J. Gordon. Mr. Gordon is sound for 
the Union, and his speech was received with demonstrations of 
applause. Dr. Randolph followed, surpassing anything ever 
witnessed in Rockford. The unbounded enthuhiasm with which 
the people received the sterling patriotic utterances of this cham- 
pion of right, was indicative of a speedy downfall of "my policy" 
in these regions, and stamps the Doctor among the greatest of 
America's great orators. He will continue to "swing around 
the circle" until the final death and burial of "my policy." 
After the speech the citizens thronged the platform, and eagerly 
sought the hand of the Doctor, showing not only that the words 
reached their ears but their hearts. God speed the good cause. 
The Doctor believes in three things: God, Abraham Lincoln, 
and Ben Butler. — Chicago Tribune. 

An immense audience gathered in Brady's Hall last night, 
to hear the political issues of the day discussed from a loyal 
Southern point of view, and sat for over two hours, spell-bound 
beneath the magnificent eloquence of P. B. Randolph, unques- 
tionably the ablest thinker and most finished orator of almost 
any race on this continent, and with very few equals on any oth- 
er. He created the grandest enthusiasm, and effectually drove 
home the last nail in the Copper Johnson coffin in this locality. 
He was followed by A. J. Gordon, also of New Orleans, who 
briefly finished what Randolph began. 

"How are you, Andy Johnson? Good morning, 'my pol- 
icy.' " — Chicago Republican. 

Dr. Randolph at the Loyal Philadelphia Convention, made 
by far the most able address delivered before that body. — Chi- 
cago Times. 

In Plymouth Church (H. W. Beecher's), Randolph follow- 
ed Moss, of Mo., and his wit and pathos elicited the most rap- 
turous applause from probably the most critical audience on 
this continent. — Brooklyn Star. 

When Mr. Randolph closed, the Convention (Philadel- 
phia), four thousand people, rose en masse, and greeted him 
with round after round of enthusiastic applause, many gather- 
ing around him, congratulating him and shaking him heartily 
by the hand.— N. Y. World. 

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by several citizens of Louisiana, among whom Dr. Randolph 
figured conspicuously, his speech being applauded to the echo 
at nearly every sentence. — N. Y. News. 

Mr. Randolph was very eloquent, and created the greatest 
enthusiasm in the audience. It was the speceh of the Conven- 
tion. — Philadelphia Press. 

The speech of Dr. Randolph was a masterly effort, and a 
most crushing expos of the duplicity, treachery and infamy of 
wrong done in high places. He is a pleasant speaker, is at times 
sublimely eloquent, and possesses that rare power of oratory that 
enables him to entrance an audience at will. In keen invective, 
in vividness of descriptive power, in withering sarcasm, wit, 
humor, and in correct, logical, and philosophical reasoning, he 
has but few equals living, and no superior. — Whiteside Sentinel, 
III. 

Dr. Randolph is one of the first orators in this or any other 
country. — Chicago Republican. 

The Southern Delegates had a confrere — Dr. P. B. Ran- 
dolph of La. — who took his place among them without a word or 
hint of remonstrance. It was reserved for a few cowardly 
northerners to seek covertly the exclusion of ONE OF THE 
FIRST OF AMERICAN ORATORS from a convention whose 
chief theme was to be the fate of an entire race. 

Just at the opportune moment, Dr. Randolph leaped to the 
platform, and made an electric speech picturing the wrongs of 
a race, demanding redress, claiming the ballot, and, suddenly 
turning to a colossal portrait of Mr. Lincoln behind the plat- 
form, exclaimed, "We are coming, F?tther Abraham, five hun- 
dred thousand more!" The effect was irresistible, the house 
sprang to its feet and gave cheer after cheer, making the panes in 
the window rattle. — N. Y. Independent. 

Dr. Randolph, the celebrated "Octoroon" of Louisiana, 
took the stand and made the most eloquent and stirring appeal 
in behalf of his people, the Union and humanity, that we have 
ever listened to, interspersing it with a number of the most 
telling hits, and mirth-provoking sallies of wit, which were 
rapturously applauded throughout by the delighted audience. — 
Summit Beacon, Akron, Ohio. 



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SAVANNAH, Illinois. 
F. M. Jenks, Esq. 

Dear Sir: — Get your folks out en masse; they will lose the 
richest treat of a quarter of a century, if they fail to hear this 
man — this singular and wonderful orator from Louisiana. Our 
people concede that we have never had so eloquent an orator as 
Dr. P. B. Randolph in our court house, previous to last evening. 
If he were to remain here to-night, we haven't a hall or building 
that would hold the people. Yours truly 

C. B. SMITH, 
Mount Carroll, 111. 

Alluding to an incident that happened to Dr. Randolph at 
Oneida, N. Y., while traveling on the pilgrimage to the martyred 
Lincoln's tomb, the "Syracuse Standard" said: — 

"When the party of Southern Unionists reached Oneida 
yesterday, and were passing from the cars, one of the number 
was approached by an individual who offered him twenty-five 
dollars not to speak in that village. 'Not enough,' replied the 
delegate, 'bid higher.' So the man bid higher, until he reached 
the sum of three hundred dollars. Even this magnificent offer 
failed to make an impression on the impoverished but faithful 
Southerner, who spurned the proposition indignantly, saying 
there was not enough money in the whole Johnson party to turn 
him from his course. This story we have on most excellent au- 
thority. It shows to what desperate expedients the copperheads 
are driven in their attempts to make head against the tide of 
popular indignation setting in against them." 

Said the "Chicago Journal": — 

"Gordon is a speaker of fair effect, but Dr. Randolph is 
one of wonderful and rare power. Combining, as he claims, in 
himself the blood of seven races — white, brown, and red — he 
has the energy, humor and persistence of all. Entering at one 
time into close argumentation of some vital principle, at another 
introducing something to amuse his audience and relieve their 
attention, he showed a descriptive power and a capability for 
moving others that reminded one of John B. Gough. He far 
exceeds any other orator I have ever heard, and few speakers can 
excel him in some points, though he has some defects of style 
that other cultivation and other associations would have rem- 
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Dr. P. B. Randolph. — We received a flying visit from the 
famous Rosicrucian last Monday, and, considering the vast 
amount of intellectual work he does, found him looking remark- 
ably well, albeit he comes West to seek relief from too much 
confined toil, realizing that "all work and no play makes Jack 
a dull boy." 

On Sunday afternoon the audience in Music Hall, learning 
who was in the house, insisted upon hearing the Dr. speak, and 
he complied, as he did also again in the evening, and we need 
not say that the people were not only thrilled, but perfectly as- 
tonished and spell-bound by his strange, weird, and wonderful 
eloquence. 

There are but few living men who can sweep the strings of 
the human heart with as much ease and power as can this re- 
markable man. 

Our friends in the West, who want to hear our glorious 
faith upbuilt by a master orator, should at once secure the op- 
portunity of engaging P. B. Randolph. 

We predict for Dr. R. the most flattering success in the 
great West, both as speaker and physician, and congratulate all 
those who may be so fortunate as to secure his services, and a 
treat and feast of good things, not to be had every day of the 
year. — R. P. Journal. 

Authors. — An author has been compared to asparagus, on 
the supposition that all that it is good about him is — his head. 
We venture to protest against such a definition, on the plea that 
much of his value is also to be ascribed to his heart. It is indeed 
the latter quality which gives to the realm of authorship its high- 
est dignity and value. 

Authors, again, have been styled lamps, exhausting them- 
selves to give light to others; to bees industriously collecting 
honey from the flowers, which they treasure up in the hive of 
books to sweeten and solace life. Authorcraft is an imitative 
as well as a creative art ; an original thinker is one who portrays 
the works of the great author of the universe — the compiler, one 
who ingeniously adapts or re-arranges the thoughts and illus- 
trations of others; both in their degree may be said to possess 
creative power. Pseudo-authors are counterfeits, and belong 
not to the true and honorable craft, and should be delath with 
according to the laws of felony. 



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Everybody remembers Goldsmith's bloom-colored coat; 
George Fox's "leathern hull," Milton's garb of coarse gray, 
Magliabecchi's great brown vest down to his 'knees, his broad- 
brimmed hat and patched mantle, and his cravat full of snuff- 
droppings; Pope's velvet cap, the wig and sword; and Buff on, 
with his hair in curl-papers while sitting at his desk; Scott's 
limp; Byron's club-foot; Pope's little crooked figure, like a note 
of interrogation; Johnson's rotundity and rheum; Charles 
Lamb's spindle-shanks in gaiters; and all manner of personal 
peculiarities of distinguished men. 

Who would not willingly make a pilgrimage to catch a 
glimpse of an author in his literary laboratory — his workshop? 
For exampe, of Richardson, in his back shop, writing "Pa- 
melia;" of Cowper and his tame hares; of Byron and Newstead 
Abbey; of Burns, in his humble cottage home; of Voltaire, in his 
retreat of Ferney by the shores of Lake Leman; of Sir Walter 
Scott, in his studio at Abbotsford; of Dr. Johnson, in his re- 
treat in Bolt Court; of Shakespeare, and the woods of Charle- 
cote; of Pope, and his house at Twickenham; of Swift, and his 
living at Lascor, — and — why not? — of the Rosicrucian, Paschal 

Beverly Randolph the author of "Pre-Adamite Man," "Cas- 

ca Llanna," "Love, and its Hidden History," and a score or 
so of equally good and powerfully- written volumes ! — the fact is, 
we are never tired of reading of such things, identified as they 
are with genius, and consecrated by their association with the 
names of great men. 

Voltaire was fond of magnificent attire, and usually dressed 
in an absurd manner. Diderot once travelled from St. Peters- 
burg to Paris in a morning-gown and night-cap, and in this 
guise promenaded the streets and public places of the towns on 
his route. He w T as often taken for a madman. While composing 
his works he used to walk about at a rapid pace, making huge 
strides, and sometimes throwing up his wig into the air when 
he struck out a happy idea. One day a friend found him in 
tears. "Good heavens!" he exclaimed, "what is the matter?" 
"I am weeping," answered Diderot, "at a story I have just com- 
posed!" 

Wordsworth was deemed a madman by some of the villag- 
ers, by others a criminal in the disguise of an idler. They 
affirmed that he had often been seen to wander about at night, 



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and look "rather strangely at the moon," and that sometimes "he 
would roam over the hills like a partridge." 

Grey was a polite monk, the most learned man of his day. 
His elegy is the most melodious poem in the language. He was 
a man of extreme tacturnity. It is said he was sometimes known 
to pass a whole day without uttering a word. 

Dr. Randolph the Delegate. — Doubtless our readers have 
seen the slander against this gentleman, uttered by one Norton, 
of Texas, — himself the great kicked-out from the loyal Southern 
delegation. 

Norton was angry that Randolph was the honored guest of 
the nation, which refused to be Nortonized, and so he revenged 
himself by charging Dr. R. with collecting large sums of money, 
whereas he as not even thought of so doing, since he joined the 
delegation. What he has collected — some four or five hundred 
dollars — is for his school. The Dr. and his plans are endorsed 
by every one of the delegations present at New York, and the 
following effectually disposes of Norton and his falsehood: — 
BURNET HOUSE, Cin., Sept. 25. 

To the Public: — Dr. P. B. Randolph is engaged in the 
laudable and noble effort to establish a Normal School for the 
education of teachers, for schools in the South. He is an earnest, 
able, and patriotic man, deserving the encouragement and aid of 
the public, and I heartily commend him to the friends of human- 
ity everywhere. 

A. J. HAMILTON, Texas. 

I cheerfully concur with Governor Hamilton. 

JOS. S. FOWLER, U. S. Senator, Tennessee. 

I heartily endorse the foregoing statement of Gov. H. and 
unite in his recommendations. 

ALBERT GRIFFIN, Ala. 

The signatures of the best men of the nation could be had 
to this splendid endorsement of an earnest, honest, worker for 
the right. 

The press are respectfully requested to publish this state- 
ment, and thus help unmask a disappointed numbscull, who 
tried to get into good company, but failed. Let the good work go 
on. 

He is "coming up." Says the "Brooklyn Star," in the re- 
port of a speech by him; — 



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Mr. Randolph, by invitation of Mr. Beecher and others, 
will deliver one more speech on Temperance before he leaves 
us for his western home. He speaks at the Brooklyn Institute 
to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, at 7.30 o'clock. When this man 
first appeared among us as a Temperance speaker, his power 
and eloquence surprised everybody who heard him. The effects 
produced by him upon his audiences was such that an almost 
universal doubt prevailed as to whether he could maintain the 
same power thereafter; but this opinion has given way to the 
conviction "that," to quote Mr. Beecher, "the Lord has raised 
up a powerful instrument for his service in the Temperance 
cause in this man." He is evidently a man of unusual ability 
and great mental resources. Time after time has he been called 
upon to speak at a moment's warning, and without the slightest 
preparation, and yet every speech is a decided improvement on 
the last, even when the first was universally acknowledged to 
be excellent. Mr. Randolph takes rank with our best speakers, 
but is not an imitator of any. His style is unique and entirely 
original, somewhat resembling J. B. Gough's, inasmuch as his 
speeches abound in bold figures and magnificent imagery, bril- 
liant flights, rich anecdote, large philanthropy, and uncomprom- 
ising hostility to wrong in any shape. It can but infuse new 
life into the noble movement to have such standard-bearers as 
Gough in Europe, and Randolph in this country. Mr. R. is a 
Son of Temperance, and belongs to Washington Division, No. 4, 
which also claims as members several of the first men of this 
section of the State. Go to the Institute early, for otherwise 
it may be difficult to obtain seats. 

Said the "Chicago R. P. Journal":— 

P. B. Randolph. — Our readers will no doubt be glad to 
learn that this celebrated thinker and orator has once more been 
impelled to enter the lecturing field. His subjects are entirely 
new and original, embracing the famous Re-incarnation subject 
(on which probably no living person is better posted); another 
on the Woman Question, embracing love, marriage and divorce; 
one on his journey through Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and Pales- 
tine ; and another on Love and it Hidden History, and the seven 
Magnetic Laws; embracing also the rationale, philosophy and 
attainment of clairvoyance — a matter upon which he can speak 
with the authority and power derived from one of the most mar- 



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vellous experiences ever known. Parties must apply soon, or 
address him at Boston, Mass. 

It has been repeatedly said, and by the highest authorities, 
that there are two ways of reaching truth, — by reasoning out 
and by feeling out. All the profoundest truths are felt out. This 
is most undoubtedly true. Mr. Randolph, when asked how he 
gets his uncommon knowledge, almost invariably replies, "I feel 
it out!" "But how do you get the scientific demonstrations of 
the truths you so frequently discover and announce to the world, 
— for instance, the forecasting, and results of the last French 
Revolution, announced in "Ravalette" ten years before it took 
place, as well as hundreds of others that might be mentioned?" 
"I feel them out also! To see is sometimes to be deceived, but to 
feel is to absolutely know!" 

Dr. Randolph at Strawn's Hall. — Our citizens are possess- 
ed of a peculiar virtue. Whenever anything novel demands 
their attention, they either send out a reconnoitering party, or 
wait the reports of a few radical and reckless persons who al- 
ways act as skirmishers when anything new or startling is to be 
investigated, and thus they are enabled to preserve the most ex- 
act propriety. A lecture is announced from some one not already 
world-wide in fame, or at least not familiarly known in Jack- 
sonville, and a small, but always select, audience greets the oc- 
casion. If it prove a failure, it is pocketed by the heroes and 
heroines as a small matter, only an adventure from which some 
good may be derived. If it prove a success, the favored few, be- 
ing few, relish it all the more, and the cautious multitude con- 
tent themselves with, "Oh, how sorry I am!" But if the thing is 
to be repeated, then look out for a crowded house. Our people 
know how to appreciate a good thing when they are sure they 
have got it, or are certain to get it. Last night a small, but 
certainly a select audience listened to the octoroon orator, Dr. 
Randolph, and as he is to lecture again on Thursday night, we 
know he will be greeted by a full house. To say that he de- 
lighted his audience would be tame; he took it by storm, and 
perfectly enraptured every man and woman who heard him. Dr. 
Randolph is a descendant of John Randolph of Virginia. He is 
an orator and a scholar, and his lecture was replete with beauty, 
pathos, wit, imagery and eloquence. We cannot attempt a 
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on the subject of temperance — a grand theme. 

Misrepresentation. — Every man who advocates ideas that 
the masses have not yet grown up to is denounced as a visionary; 
his sentiments misrepresented, his motives called in question, his 
character traduced. He who designs to labor for the enlight- 
enment and elevation of mankind must make up his mind to be 
denounced and derided, and must forgive his opposers, for they 
"know not what they do." The ignorance of the multitude is yet 
dense, and the majority of mankind are not prepared to under- 
stand or appreciate the most simple and evident verities. He 
who cannot bear patiently all abuse, scorn and indifference, need 
not enter the field of Reform. But the man who is prepared to 
be poor and unpopular in his own day, to labor on whether his 
contemporaries hear or refuse to hear, he shall do a work whose 
issues shall be everlasting, and whose memory shall never perish. 

This is why Randolph's fame is safe. 

Dealings with the Dead. — To any eye that can read and 
every heart that can understand, I would say that if they have 
any desire to know the real truths of spirit instruction and spirit 
knowledge, let them read with close attention and unbiased mind, 
the book called "Dealing with the Dead," by P. B. Randolph. 
If they cannot take time to read the whole book, let them begin 
at the sixty-eighth page. The soul-stirring truths therein ex- 
plained are too true to be thrown idly aside. Many are now 
reading and appreciating, and the time is not far distant when 
thousands more will do the same, and a cry will go forth for more 
of the same kind. 

ONE WHO KNOWS. 

Dr. Dewey once took a letter or Photograph of Randolph, 
to a celebrated lady reader of the human character through such 
instrumentalities. She reported thus : — 

"Opulent with spirit gifts, himself is the cause. His soul 
is full of imagery, yet lacks the system ; method is no part of his 
inheritance. Argumentative, concise, clear, he feels his way with 
care, yet fails to bring to surface what he feels is true. Bigoted 
at times, he moves among men as Lord of state, as though he 
was made to govern all within his reach. His speech is rapid, 
utterance is clear, yet beggars none; 'tis not borrowed, 'tis his 
own, unique and singular; at times controlled by jets of fun, he 
laughs himself at what he's done, relates at length his own ex- 



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perience, and calls up mirth and jollity from them, who, hearing, 
wish to hear again. Beware; all men, beware how you trample 
on him! Take care, take care, he will not bear nor forbear 
again. Men he honors, so be he deems them men, but never 
feels himself beneath their notice. 

MRS. E. M. SHIRLEY, Worcester, Mass." 

Even so late at March 21st, 1872, came the following: — 
EAST BRAINTREE, Vt, March 20, 1872. 

P. B. Randolph: — Your book "Seership" is a Godsend to 

me. If I could never become a seer, the ideas conveyed therein 

are worth fitfty times the cost of the book to me, and more, if I 

could not procure another copy. Hoping to hear from you soon, 

I remain yours truly HENRY J. HYZER. 

• •••*• 

GRAMMERCY PARK HOTEL, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1866. 
We, the Southern Loyal Committee, appointed by the late 
Southern Loyal Convention, held in Philadelphia, to perform 
a political pilgrimage to the grave of our martyred president, 
Abraham Lincoln, do hereby express our approval of the edu- 
cational plans and ideas, calculated and intended to extend the 
benefits of sound learning, where they are greatly needed, to the 
entire South, as advanced and entertained by one of our own 
number, the delegate from Louisiana, P. B. Randolph, M. D. 
We cordially endorse both the ideas and the man, and especially 
in the light of the well-known fact that he has proved himself 
one of the most earnest, enthusiastic and successful teachers of 
the ignorant, that ever attempted to teach. This he has done in 
New Orleans, and elsewhere in Louisiana, and the man is entirely 
and wholly worthy of public confidence and trust. 

R. O. SIDNEY, Mississippi. 

CHARLES E. MOSS, Missouri. 

R. H. BRANSCOMB, Missouri. 

E. V. WRIGHT, Washington, D. C. 

WESTON FLINT, Missouri. 

J. R. S. VAN VLEET, Texas. 

HENRY S. LASAR, Missouri. 

JOSEPH S. FOWLER, Tennessee. 

H. H. THOMAS, Tennessee. 

W. B. STOKES, Tennesses. 

N, H. MILLER, District of Columbia. 



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D. H. BINGHAM, Alabama. 
Z. K. PANGBORN, New Jersey. 
WM. S. POPE, St. Louis, Mo. 
CHARLES P. SMITH, Trenton, N. J. 

D. COOPER ALLINSON, Trenton, N. J. 
C. B. SAB IN, Houston, Texas. 

E. HIESTAND, Louisiana. 
LORENZO SHERWOOD, Texas. 
O. B. HART, Florida. 

A. J. HAMILTON, Texas. 

N. S. MORSE, Georgia. 

H. C. WARMOTH, of Louisiana. 

W. G. BROWNLOW, Governor of Tennessee. 

HERMANN BOKAUM, Tennessee. 

T. I. STEWART, Maryland. 

HOP EBAIN, North Carolina. 

State of Illinois, Executive Department, 
SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 12, 1866. 
To the People of the State of Illinois: — 

I recommend to your favorable notice, Dr. P. B. Randolph, 
of Louisiana, who was a member of the Loyal Southern Con- 
vention recently held in Philadelphia. 

Dr. Randolph is highly recommended as a gentleman and a 
scholar. He is an earnest, faithful friend of the oppressed race 
and to mankind. He seeks by honorable effort to elevate the 
condition of the poor people in the United States, and in devot- 
ing his life to this humane and praiseworthy object he deserves 
your encouargement, and I hope he will receive it heartily. 

R. J. OLGESBY. 
Said the Vandalia, 111., "Courier," speaking of the two 
mixed blood campaigners of 1866: — 

The second speaker was Dr. Randolph of Louisiana, a 
nephew of John Randolph of Roanoke. (17) He made a feel- 
ing speech — narrated the sufferings of the Union people of the 
South — gave a brief history of the New Orleans massacre, and 
in withering and burning words placed the blame of the present 
distracted condition of the Southern States where it belongs — 
upon the President and northern copperheads. Dr. Randolph's 
speech was characterized by eloquent utterances, humorous com- 
parisons and withering rebukes, and although about one six- 



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teenth foreign, he is a more able speaker, according to the evi- 
dence of the Chicago "Times," than any of the Demi-Johnson 
orators new perambulating the State of Illinois. 

Headquarters General Superintendent of Education, La. 
Dr. P. B. Randolph has been in the employ of this office, in 
the capacity of principal teacher in one of the largest and most 
flourishing schools for freedmen in the State. It affords me great 
pleasure to be able to say from an ofriical acquaintance with him 
for several months past, that I have found him to be a gentle- 
man of very rare attainments and qualifications as a teacher,, 
and excelled by none in sincere earnest zeal in the great cause 
of education and moral elevation of the unfortunate freedmen. 
I have no hesitancy in recommending him to the friends of 
the cause of liberty, justice, humanity, and education of the 
freedmen. H. R. PEASE, 

Captain and General Superintendent 

of Education B. R. F. and A. L., La 
* # * 

The following testimonials of character, and endorsement of 
the proposed school work, are from some of the most illustrious 
men of the great Republic and the world: — (18) 

Dr. P. B. Randolph stands highly recommended as a man; 
an educator of the people, a true philanthropist; and a gentleman 
of very rare and unusual attainments as a scholar and orator ; he 
is making a very laudable effort to establish a graded school in 
Louisiana, wherein, in addition to juveniles, men and women may 
be instructed, and prepared to become teachers throughout the 
South. 

The undersigned most heartily approve thereof, and trust 
that he may be heard in behalf of his cause, and assisted by all 
who desire the advancement of civilization and refinement among 
the colored people of these United States. 
He is earnest, eloquent and true. 

ANDREW JOHNSON, President U. S. 

B. F. WADE, U. S. Senator. 

J. P. SULLIVAN, New Orleans, La. 

T. B. THORPE, New Orleans, La. 

E. H. DURELL, Judge, New Orleans, La. 

EDWARD C. BILLINGS, New Orleans, La. 



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I have known Mr. Randolph thirteen years, and can testify 
to his character and qualifications, and believe him a specially 
qualified instrument for his work. 

JAMES W. NYE, U. S. Senator, Nevada. 
HORACE H. DAY, New York. 
Washington, July 21, 1866. 
Mr. Nye has known Mr. Randolph since 1848. 
I cordially recommend Mr. Randolph and the cause he rep- 
reesnts to the favor of the friends of the human race, and of the 
country. He has energy, capacity, courage, and integrity neces- 
sary to perform the work in which he is engaged. 

N. P. BANKS, M. C, Massachusetts. 
Washington, D. C, July 21, 1866. 

I concur in the foregoing and commend Mr. Randolph and 
his cause to the consideration of the public. 

WM. D. KELLEY, M. C, Pennsylvania. 
I cordially sympathize with all movements similar to that 
of Dr. Randolph's, and believe, with proper encouragement, he 
will carry it forward to most desirable success. 

J. B. FERGUSON, 
Cor. Sec. National Union Club, Washington, D. C. 
I am fully satisfied of the fitness of Mr. Randolph for the 
enterprise in which he is engaged, and earnestly commend him 
and that enterprise to public favor. 

A. W. RANDALL, 
U. S. Postmaster General. 
I fully endorse the enterprise contemplated by Mr. Ran- 
dolph. HUGH McCULLOUCH, 

Secretary Treasury, U. S. 
July 23, 1866. 

I concur in recommending the enterprise of Mr. Randolph. 

U. S. GRANT, 
General Armies of the United States. 
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 24, 1866. 
I heartily endorse the object proposed by Dr. Randolph, and 
whatever can be done, in accordance with law, I. will do to aid 
the enterprise. O. O. HOWARD,, 

Major General and Commissioner 

Bureau Refugee Freedmen, etc, 



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Dr. Randolph's character is unimpeachable; as a thinker 
and author, he stands entirely alone among self-educated people 
in this country, and it is doubtful if any man of mixed blood 
now living is his intellectual peer. He should be encouraged in 
the noble work he has begun. 

We heartily endorse Mr. Randolph and his enterprise. He 
deserves success. 

THADDEUS STEVENS, M. C, Pennsylvania. 
SCHUYLER COLFAX, 

Speaker U. S. House of Representatives. 

e. d. Mcpherson, 

Clerk of House of Representatives. 
JOHN W. FORNEY, Clerk U. S. Senate. 
HENRY j. RAYMOND. 

CHICAGO ACADEMY OF UNIVERSAL SCIENCE. 
P. B. Randolph, Esq.: — 

Dear Sir, — At a regular meeting of the above Society, you 
were nominated and unanimously elected an honorary member 
of the same. And in view of your acquaintance with so many 
subjects of interest to humanity, you are kindly invited to con- 
tribute an article on Budhistic, Chaldean, and other Oriental 
Magic, to be read before the Society. 

Very respectfully yours, 

W. T. COLES, Secretary. 

MIDDLETOWN, Orange Co., March 21, 1872. 

Paschal B. Randolph: — 

Dear Sir, — Your writings have done us incalculable good! 

After twenty-five years of marriage, a perpetual honeymoon has 

again dawned upon us — self and wife — as the result. Our best 

thanks, and wishes for your welfare. M. S. W. K. 

* * # 

It is truly said, and most of mankind agree, that the worst 
of teaching is better than none; one who is self-taught can take 
no advantage of the experience in methods of learning acquired 
by his race in hundreds of years; he begins a new history of 
education for himself. It is equally true that all that we think, 
nay, even our very manner of thinking, comes from Asia. It is 
the cradle of thought — the nursery of ideas. Well, Mr. Ran- 
dolph is wholly and emphatically a self-taught man, and as such 



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long ago mastered the principles, not only of current philosophies, 
but of the best and profoundest of all past ages; beside which 
his mind is essentially and markedly Asiatic, and for this rea- 
son his writings possess a peculiar essence, so to speak, found 
in but few writers of the age. Those who have ever seen, heard, 
read or talked with this man, will never forget him. Wholly 
himself, he follows no leader; is in a mental whirlwind half the 
time, and will change in style, appearance, manner, a dozen 
times within the hour, so that you scarce can believe the same 
human being stands or sits before you. 

In physique as in mind, he differs greatly from all other 
men; now sympathetic to tears, anon colder than a Nova Zembla 
iceberg, yet hiding a volcano all the w T hile. Wonderfully, almost 
preternaturally magnetic, it is but little marvel that he has, to use 
his own expression (now incorporated in a score of stage-plays), 
"Loved not wisely, but too much and often." Had it not been 
so he never could have written "Casca Llanna" and "Love and 
its Hidden History," both of which were drawn from his own 
love life experiences and "Walks among the Women," the pro- 
posed title of a book of gems on the subject of the tender passion. 
Mr. Randolph is not a handsome man, but there's a something 
about him which attracts attention wherever he may be ; for even 
in the theatre lorgnettes by scores are pointed at him, until the 
thing becomes offensive, while on the street few men draw more 
passing eyes towards them. In complexion he is sallow-olive, 
black eyes, black hair, black moustache, imperial and beard, but 
otherwise beardless. For twenty years he has worn spectacles. 

Formerly he used to frequently speak in public, but for ten 
years has rarely done so, save in the memorable political cam- 
paign of 1866; but when he does ascend the rostrum he reigns 
lord paramount and alone ; for his orations in earnestness of pur- 
pose and delivery, clearness of outline and vehemence of expres- 
sion, gorgeousness of figure and trope, and magic, marvelous 
eloquence, have rarely been equalled and never surpassed. 

With lofty soul and beaming brow he treads the stage every 
inch a king; dissects his subject — mainly the passions — with 
master-hand, delieneates each perfectly, and utterly despising 
punctiliousness of any sort lays bare the human soul, so that 
even the blind can see. 

A set oration on a theme he delights in is a treat to listen to, 



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for when thoroughly going, engaged, wound up, it is one of the 
most extraordinary exhibitions of word-painting, idea-advancing, 
resources, endurance and overwhelming impetuosity ever heard 
anywhere, at any time, from the lips and brains of any man. It 
is unique, alone, complete, finished, and without a flaw from 
exordium to peroration. At least this is the opinion of one of 
the leading journals of America, from whose columns it is quot- 
ed word for word. 

In his dramatic power, whether of tongue or pen, this man 
is almost alone, especially when the topic is either mysticism 
or the inner life of love — hopeful, non-lurid love ; and no master 
of cur day can stand on more solid or more lofty ground; and 
the interest felt in him is intense to a degree, for by turns he is 
wild, weird, pathetic, grand, even sublime; sometimes grotesque, 
and not unfrequently, a harrowing sensation — as for instance, 
his Cobra Scene, is ended in a genuine pathos, itself a flash of 
rare genius. Never afraid of outraging public sentiment, the 
man dares and does, writes and says things which would imme- 
diately kill the reputation of almost any other public character. 
"But they expect such things of Randolph," and would be sur- 
prised if he pursued any other course. His speeches have never 
been repeated, in fact he can neither read a speech, repeat one a 
second time, or deliver one twice from the same notes. His mind 
is well-nigh inexhaustible of good things, and new thoughts; and 
he keeps his originality and freshness, as perfect as if he had just 
begun to exercise his quick, observant, fertile, sharp, incisive, 
penetrative mind; and his fancy, satire, invective, humor, wit 
and common sense, win the reader or hearer in spite of himself; 
and especially so, in view of the daring boldness with which he 
sails squarely in the teeth of all authorities whatever, and unhesi- 
tatingly attacks popular prejudices, sentiments and opinions, so 
that one can't help feeling, "This man may be right! At all 
events he is honest, and I guess I'll read, or hear him again." 

There are few more brilliant conversationalists, when in 
the humor, — and he will not be unless you speak, as well as 
being spoken to, — than that same queer-looking man. When lie 
is, then his talk is like the upper part of New York, — a broad 
sheet of silver in the moonlight, with vague, misty shores, loom- 
ing just beyond old Erie's wave. Then comes a rapier-like flash- 
ing in the night, the threat-tones are exchanged for chest-voice, 



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and you know you are in the rapids, and are being rushed, as by 
an armed battalion, by the wierd eloquence of the speaker, whose 
face pales, lips turn white, and eyes flash liquid fire, as he whirls 
you along toward Niagara's dreadful leap; and he rushes you 
over the parapet of logic to an inevitable conclusion, just as 
surely as that Erie's floods roll down to the sea. This is why 
Henry Wilson, senator, and the now Boston postmaster, secured 
his services for the Republican campaign of 1866, and when 
they had used this man to their heart's content, he who penned 
the Civil-Rights bill, and who so stiffened the Republican back- 
bone that they put a "Black Suffrage" plank into their platform, 
not only turned the cold shoulder to him, but worse. Without 
this man they might have carried the elections that year, but it 
is doubtful. The only greatful Republican of them all was the 
head of the party, Ulysses S. Grant, who gave Mr. Randolph 
two hundred dollars for his school, which school O. O. Howard 
saw fit to strangle in its birth. 

Great souls shine all the brighter when contrasted with 
the littleness around them; judged by this standard, Mr. Ran- 
dolph has nothing to fear, either now, or when life's fitful fever 
is ended, and his weariness finds rest. 

Perfectly aware that intolerance and spiteful calumny have 
ruined many a good and righteous cause, and driven many a good 
man to the banks of the bitter waters; that in what is called 
"society" manners pass for a great deal too much, morals for 
too little, money for real worth, and genuine character for noth- 
ing at all, unless backed by a clique or ring, Randolph conclud- 
ed to take Saxe's advice, and "go it alone," convinced that the 
affection in his soul would yet set him right before the world. 
"Love will shine through all!" said he, and so it will. 

The persecutions to which he has been recently subjected, a 
history of which immediately follows, instead of working the ill 
intended, bids fair to result in enabling him to reach a far 
larger public than he had hoped for on this earth, and will 
unquestionably go far toward setting this gifted man rightly and 
fairly before the world. 

TISKILWA, 111, May 14th, 1S6S. 
Doct Randolph : — 

Dear Sir: — Your book, "Love," etc, is received. It is a 
splendid work ! just such as humanity will cherish — if not yet— 



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as a great work, and your name will be handed to posterity as 
one of the great lights of this age. 

You have my earnest and best wishes for your prosperity 
and success in all laudable undertakings. 

Yours respectfully, RHODA BENSON. 

PEORIA, 111., May 17, 1868. 
Dr. P. B. Randolph: 

Dear Sir, — I have finished reading your very remarkable 
work, entitled "Disembodied Man," and have been deeply in- 
terested in the astounding revelations contained therein. Not 
long since I read Davis' "Stellar Key to the Summer Land," 
(published about two years after Randolph's wonderful book!), 
but you seemed to have penetrated the mysteries and glories of 
the upper spheres to a greater extent. J. OSCAR BELL. 

Dear Brother: — Ever since I read your book I have be- 
lieved that you possess a true and noble soul, and I believe so 
yet. Your "Disembodied Man" is my Bible! You have therein 
asked and solved a great many questions that I never saw any 
one try to solve before ! The insight you have 

given me in your strange soul history, has awakened my soul's 
deepest sympathy. I do sympathize with you from my soul's 
most inmost being, and your sorrows are to me as sacred as the 
dead. Ycu speak of a personal story in "Seership." While 
reading it, the thought flashed that that story was you own. — 
it, and what I read in "Disembodied Man," that you have been 
a victim. I can readily perceive the exquisite torture, the almost 
unendurable agony a soul of your fine sensibilities must have suf- 
fered! Surely, my brother, ycu have been forced to -travel over 
rough and thorny roads; been forced to drain the cup of bitter- 
ness to its very dregs. But out of your sorrow and bitter agony 
you have arisen almost a god, for you are as far above the masses 
as the heavens above the earth. The more I read your works, the 
more I worship your great and noble soul, so Godlike in its at- 
titude, so ful of love and compassion and charity for poor, weak, 
sinful humanity, why, I feel as though I am but the smallest 
atom — so weak and helpless. I wish I could leave my body in a 
sleep, while my soul would enter one of the Sanitoria you de- 
scribe (in "After Death") and be nursed into health. 
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WATERFORD, Erie Co., Pa., May 27th. 

Kind Sir: — Your very pleasant and cordial letter, and 
valuable book came duly to hand; and I gratefully assure you of 
the pleasurable and agreeable emotions elicited. 

The letter, so grandly cordial in its manly and deeply 
scholastic tone, awakened emotions of reverence, and almost 
evoked the "nameless" of Bulwer's unrivalled fancy. I read, nay, 
studied, your book. Is it essential for you to know the impres- 
sion made on my mind ? I see you were raised a Christian, with 
the Bible, not Koram, as your type and model and point of holy 
reverence. This has become your second nature — a part of your 
being that, dress it as you will, it is there still; a part of your 
mother's creation. I am astonished by the glory, and much of 
the wisdom and pristine beauty in your — Revelation! Is this 
Rosicrucian? My mind is full of the new ideas of your book. 
Mejnour, teach thy Neophyte. MRS. A. A. M. GILL. 



Hundreds more to the same purport can be produced, but 
as this sketch of an "earnest" man's life is limited, one more 
only shall here be reproduced. 

Another correspondent, B. W. Keith, E. Bridgewater, Mass., 
says of Disembodied Man," "I admire it, for if it, the here- 
after, is as you say, it is the highest conception of finite mind — 
worthy of a God!" 

Of "Casca Llanna," the "Banner of Light" said, under the 
heading of "The Woman's Book! A life's issues of Love in all 
its phases:" — We all know what love means, yet fail to realize it. 
This splendid work tells how. This great work treats of Love, 
woman, marriage. The grand secret. A book for those who 
have hearts! And it is the ablest and the grandest book on Love, 
Man, Woman, the Laws of Affection and Marriage, that ever 
fell from human pen ! No description, critique, or synopsis can 
begin to do justice to the mighty work, which ought to be bound 
in gold and be on the table of every man, woman, and youth in 
the land and in the world! It includes matchless articles upon 
Love, Woman, Courtship, Marriage, The Laws of Happiness, 
The Family, Vampirism, Love-Starvation, Affectional Health, 
The Grand Secret, Magnetic Leeching s, Good and Evil Effects 
of Varied Magnetisms, The Infemalisms of Modem so-called 
ic Philosophies." A book for every man, but especially every 



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woman in the land — a book superior not only to any work of 
the kind in America or Europe, but this work is superior to any 
that probably was ever written! 

Better present this book to a loved one than give money or 
jewels. 

Now let us pass to the next phase of Randolph's career. 
For the publication of the very identical books, so graphically 
commended by the people and the press, was made the ostensible 
motive for thrusting him into a felon's cell, — but the real mo- 
tive was to blackmail him out of the valuable copyrights of those 
very works — a scheme which, though it failed of its real end, 
nevertheless stripped poor Randolph of every dollar he had in 
the world. 



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PART TWO 

THE ORDEAL 

In May, 1871, two men, a man named Peters, (but who in 
Montreal was known as "Prentiss," proprietor of a weekly paper 
then called the "Hearthstone" and still known as such under its 
new, honorable and able proprietor, Mr. Desbaret,) and another 
named Thomas H. Churchill, (ostensible publishers of a hum- 
bug pamphlet called the "Harvest of Gold,") who did business 
at No. 12 Old State House, Boston, under the style of "Amos 
Mason & Co.," said Amos being a man of straw altogether, 
called on P. B. Randolph at his rooms, and proposed to deal in 
his books. In a little while an intimacy grew up between 
Randolph and the two parties, which continued till "Mason & 
Co." left Boston. Churchill remained and lived principally on 
money earned by Randolph, but which that individual will never 
see again. At this time, Mr. Randolph had just begun to write 
his book "Casca Llanna," and in that work, as it advanced, 
Churchill, as a literary expert, expressed a great interest, and 
declared his ability to circulate three hundred thousand copies 
of the work when done; nor did he overrate either his ability 
or the salability of that book; only one thing was necessary, that 
the copyright of the book pass either into his hands, or those of 
a "ring" under his engineering and control. 

Early in June, 1871, James Fisk, Jr., visited Boston, and 
Mr. Randolph wrote the celebrated article about him, which the 
united testimony of some thousands declared, after Fisk's 
murder, to be the best and truest estimate of the man, his nature, 
character and genius, ever written, and the world remains of 
that opinion still. 

This article Mr. Randolph incorporated in "Casca Llanna," 
where it commences at page 220 and ends at 240. 

After Fisk's death, Mr. Randolph changed the conclusion 
of the article in the book, but had it published in a separate 
pamphlet, as the subjoined copy of its advertisement will show:. 



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"James Fisk, Jr. — His Secret! The secret of his success 
and wonderful power. What the Clairvoyant lady said about 
him! Also the laws of love as applied to Fisk's case, with a 
paper on the Tobacco Habit. — How to break it. The natural 
antidote. Also, about matters pertinent to the happiness of all 
wives and their husbands ; also, all males and females of the hu- 
man species on earth. Post free, twenty-five cents. P. B. Ran- 
dolph, Boston, Mass." 

So true, so just, did people believe that article to be, that no 
less than four persons undertook to call Fisk's personal atten- 
tion to it, the author furnishing copies of the work for that pur- 
pose. Two days before Fisk's death, he told the gentleman, 
(Paul H. Nelson, Esq.,) that he considered the estimate of him- 
self in that book to be the fairest ever made of himself and his 
springs of action. Said Fisk, "I don't know this Mr. Randolph, 
never saw him, — but about woman, he's better posted than any 
man I know of; in fact, he's got a corner on the subject, and a 
big one too! As for me, I think his head's level, and that he 
knows me better than almost any one else outside of my strict 
family circle!" — "Then, Mr. Fisk, can't you use your influence 
to get a good publisher for Randolph's book?" — "Well, I don't 
deal in that kind o' stock, but I tell you what I can, and will do. 
I'll buy a lot o' the books to give away, for I rather like that 
joke at the end of the piece about me." — "Well, Mr. Fisk, what 
shall I say to Randolph, — how many copies will you take at 
wholesale prices?" — "Me? Why as many as you like" — "Will 
you take two thousand copies?" — "Yes, ten of 'em — but come 
see me to-morrow." And they parted. Next day they met again, 
and it was arranged that they should meet at the Grand Opera 
House on Monday, and fix the business finally. And so they 
parted again. On that same day another man called on Fisk, 
upon the self-same errand, and he too was put off till the Mon- 
day. This was at eleven A. M. That self-same afternoon, 
Edward S. Stokes foully murdered James Fisk, Jr., and P. B. 
Randolph lost the best chance in the world he ever had up to that 
time, and probably also one of the very best practical friends, — 
friends willing and able to assist him financially, he ever had; 
always excepting the two or three whose names he has given, 
with scarcely an exception. Talk about slips betwixt cup and 
lip, — what a slip was there! (19) Ten thousand copies of 



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Randolph's book lost to him and the world by the assassin's 
bullet! 

In the August preceding this tragedy, Mr. Randolph had 
become acquainted by letter, with the second man who talked 
with Fisk about the book. His name was convertibly W. French, 
W. T. French, W. Bay French, W. French Bay, of Spalding, 
Ohio, but writing from a place called Leatherwood, in the same 
State. 

Now began a scheme so subtle, so unmanly and little, as to 
almost make one doubt all human integrity whatever. 

All the world knows P. B. Randolph is, and for twenty years 
has been, at the head of a secret order of thinkers. (20) This 
order is divided into three parts, corresponding to the universal 
and multiform Trinity. The first division is called Volantia 
(21), because its main object is the culture of the human will. 
The division is thousands of years old, and in Oriental lands is 
known as "Merek el Gebel" or the Gate of Light, a neophyte of 
which Mr. Randolph became, in Egypt, many years ago. The 
second division is known as Rosicrucia (21 ) (Rosicrucians), and 
in the East is known as the Door of the Dawn, and is of Ansair- 
itic origin. The distinctive degree of this division is Decretism 
(21), or the culture of the triple will; it is nrystic, profound, and 
has for its object the development of inherent, and but little- 
dreamed-of human energies and powers, not with reference to 
things of fleeting moment, but of stable and eternal principles, 
having their rise on earth, their culmination in the heavens. 

The third division of the order is known as The Dome, is 
Chaldaic in origin; is Pythagoric in essence; and in the Orient 
is known among its members as The Mountain. Its distinctive 
degree is Posism, (21) the practical use of Knowledge, Will and 
Agape (celestial love, non-physical, hypersensuous, and there- 
fore transcendental ) . 

Well, Mr. W. T. French Bay knew that the gate of the 
temple always opened for manhood, goodness and honor; and he 
felt a strong desire to be instructed, and made a man of; but the 
sequel proved that there are materials out of which silk purses 
cannot be manufactured! He also was ambitious of medical 
honors, and expressed a strong desire to be taught Mr. Ran- 
dolph's system of treating disease; and application was accord- 
ingly made, a price fixed upon for the latter service; and in due 



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time, eyes filled with tears — crocodile, perhaps, — French-Bay 
made his appearance, was taken on probation in the Order, and 
partially instructed in the art Medical. 

French-Bay and Churchill met in Randolph's room, in- 
stantly afhnitized, laid their plans and things went smoothly on 
until the negotiation of some false paper by Churchill caused 
that worthy to quit Boston, for Boston's good, between two days. 
Before this came to pass, however, French-Bay and himself laid 
a lGng-headed trap, and this was how the thing was done. 
French-Bay took his lessons in Medical science, all except a bit 
of rare knowledge Mr. Randolph learned among the Arabs, 
Turks, Syrians, Armenians and Egyptians. This knowledge was 
called the "Golden Secret,'' not the "Golden Letter," — the latter 
has been printed on a sheet for physicians and a few medical 
friends, but the former has never been in type, and exists only 
in Mss. (It exists only so at this writing, and perhaps would 
have always remained thus, had not circumstances almost forced 
Mr. Randolph to consent to print, and furnish it to those people 
whom it is intended for — the victims of disease, originating in 
disobedience of the primary vital laws of their mental, emotional 
and aflectional natures. For the first time in the world, Dr. 
Randolph has made plain the grand secret of Longevity, and 
still others, calculated to complete what his other works on Love 
so well begun.) 

Now both Churchill and French- Bay knew the value of the 
" Golden Secret." They had seen letters containing sums of five 
to forty dollars in exchange for writing it out and sending it, 
and other letters containing additional sums as presents to Mr. 
Randolph, for benefits derived from the very valuable and singu- 
lar knowledge it contains, and to be baulked in getting hold of 
what a princely revenue might be derived from, was very hard 
to be endured. 

During French-Bay's stay in Boston, finding himself un- 
able to get the "Golden Secret," albeit he had seen the only re- 
maining copy of the "Golden Letter," the other five copies having 
been given to the persons they were printed for, — physicians 
mainly, — he desired to be "led to the gate of the Temple," to be 
taken on trial. (And it is a singular fact that three of the only 
four men who were ever thus taken in Boston, proved wholly 
unfit; the fourth one — a true man — not a resident, proved worth 



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his weight in solid pearls.) He was so taken, as was Churchill, 
both of whom, with bare heads and uplifted hands, took the 
Rosicrucian's Oath, which word for word as follows. The same 
oath was administered to and taken by French-Bay's friend in 
Ohio. 

The oath: Appealing to God as witness of my integrity of 
purpose, I ask to be admitted to the preparatory or trial degree 
of the honorable and ancient Order of Rosicrucians. I solemnly 
swear to try to be a true and honest man : that I will never pur- 
posely injure the fair name of any human being; that I will for- 
ever keep inviolate all secrets that may be trusted unto me : that 
I will never babble, lie, steal, bear false witness, expost faults, 
create scandal, or cause any human heart to grieve or mourn; 
that I will dry all tears and cheer all hearts, and never cease 
trying to be a good and worthy citizen of the world: that I will 
never seduce any virgin, wife, widow or matron; but will protect 
all such, if need be, with my life; that I will henceforth bear 
without abuse, the grand old name of gentleman ; and if I fail in 
aught herein, it will be proof that I am wholly unworthy to be 
called a man. I solemnly swear to be prompt, just and true in all 
my dealings with man or woman, and that never will I sully 
my soul with a mean action of any sort or kind whatever, — So 
help me God! I further solemnly swear, in the awful presence 
cf Almighty and Eternal God, that I will ever and always cham- 
pion the just cause of woman; that I will never encourage har- 
lotry, practise libertinage, defame another, wrong any man, and 
especially any true woman, and in all things will strenuously 
endeavor to be a man! So help me God." (22) 

Result : One of these men boasted of seducing his partner's 
wife, and his own wife's daughter by a former husband ; wrong- 
ed several persons in Boston out of hard-earned money; con- 
ducted an illegal intentionally swindling lottery right under the 
noses of the law officers, and swindled the best friend he ever 
had; the other deliberately resorted to perjury to gain a few 
dollars, and caused the arrest of a man whom he knew was as 
innocent of the foul charge he swore to as that his own soul is 
warped and guilty. It is not hard to conceive how a man can be 
rushed into crime for revenge but not so easy to discern how one 
can deliberately seek to restroy one who, so far from ever having 



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done him a harm, had done all a man could for him, and actually 
went hungry that he might dine. 

The primary lessons taken, French-Bay, whose real name 
is W. T. French, expressed a desire to remain with Mr. Ran- 
dolph, and proposed a business arrangement; he professing his 
ability to raise the capital necessary, from a friend of his, one 
Andrew Bay, of Leatherwood, Ohio, — a man reputed to be worth 
over one hundred thousand dollars ! Randolph, desirous to enter 
the lecturing field, and not suspecting any villainy, readily 
agreed to French's proposition, and signed papers whereby he 
placed all, and singular, his works in the hands of Bay, French 
& Co., the "Co." being the immaculate Churchill. 

Several of the works being in manuscript, and others need- 
ing re-stereotyping, it was agreed that Bay should furnish six 
thousand six hundred dollars for that purpose, after which Ran- 
dolph was to receive a royalty on all sales; Bay & Co. to have the 
exclusive monopoly of his works for ten years. This very liberal 
concession, however, did not satisfy the parties from Canada and 
Ohio. Nothing less than absolute ownership of the copyrights 
would satisfy them, and as they could not get them by fair and 
open means, the vilest and foulest were resorted to. Finally, in 
September, French, having arranged with Churchill, took his 
departure for Ohio, to consult with Bay, his principal — an old 
man, standing on the borders of the grave, whose love of money 
will not help his entrance into heaven, if ever his soul drifts on 
the edies of space in that direction — and yet it is a matter of 
doubt whether that old man himself was not the blinded victim 
of a villainous trickster, backed and prompted by as complete a 
scoundrel as ever left Victoria's dominions betwixt two days. Be 
that, however, as it may, it was not long ere French wrote Ran- 
dolph that all things were satisfactorily arranged; that Bay 
would enter into the contract, pay six thousand six hundred 
dollars for printer's work, furnishing French et als. additional 
funds for business purposes. He proposed that Randolph should 
dedicate "Casca Llanna" to Andrew Bay, which was done in the 
first two hundred and fifty copies, at which point R. declined that 
dubious proceeding, preferring to dedicate the work to some one 
more worthy of it than such a being as A. Bay, of Leatherwood, 
Ohio, and so he inscribed the next issue to his own mother's 



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memory, which so enraged French, that he swore all sorts of 
"funny things" — poor wretch! 

Now came almost daily letters from French to Randolph, 
the most important ones of which are still in his possession, and 
two or three of which first suggested the idea that French was 
trying a confidence swindle on Bay and his sister, whom F. 
boasted was neck-deep in love with his pretty self — a thing that 
Randolph believes to this day, and of which he made notes, it 
being a "circular singumstance" for a woman of about seventy 
to turn fool and fall in love with a fellow whose own wife, after 
twenty long years of agonized life with, had been forced to pro- 
cure a divorce from — mainly as it has been asserted, on the 
ground that he was less man than beast — in a matter of horrible, 
shuddering import; albeit the writer hopes for manhood's sake 
the truth is overstated. At all events the poor lady lives in Pauld- 
ing, Ohio, and can tell her own story, just as she did tell it to 
him of whom the alleged facts were derived ! 

French wrote, asking that A. Bay be admitted to member- 
ship. "As I feel weak here alone and need his assistance and 
counsle, would like this Initiation to take place as soon as 
practable. He is seventy-two years old, is a little dogmatical. 
Independent of all kinds of Clicks! (Sic!) — Am pleased to hear 
Churchill remains in Boston. I hope and believe he will suc- 
ceed." In the same letter, alluding to another man's wife, 
whose husband wants to meet French for a little private talk, 
the Paulding hero gushes thusly: — 

"Martin. — Thou Sunlight without a shaddow (?) beauty 
without a blot; Thou pale-faced, azured eyed, bird voiced, slight 
hand, slender waisted, small footed little devil in eve's flesh, how 
art thou? Well, of course, how could it be otherwise? When 
God makes up his last crown of jewels I feel assured that you 
will be one of his brightest gems." 

"There, did you ever — haven't I spelt." As to Carrie, (an- 
other man's wife) French wrieth: 

"I did not make her acquaintance (sorry) only remember 
her queen life forme and heavenly eyes — " — He wanted to make 
her his "Turkle Duw!" — "I will be governed by your diction 
(?) I am constant early and late — all day keep things moveing 
as long as there is a thing to move with proffit. Have the book 
dictated to Dr. Andrew Bay. It takes." That is to say, it was 



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a means to enable him to lay siege to the Bay estates, for he 
wrote Oct. 12, 1871 : "I have this afternoon reach (?) the crisis 
with Bay. He is about to sell some fifteen thousand dollars' 
worth of real estate. Give me the use of it for publication of 
the book, five or six thousand extra to pay for board, and office 
hire, etc. — I had to work the thing so adroitly that I am now 
ashamed to show the paper in relation to the statement you give 
me; make the statement again proposing to dedicate the bood 
( ?book) to him, etc. We can change the thing, if I come, to suit 
ourselves." But why, if he was not throwing dust in Bay's 
eyes? 

But the details — these letters of W. F. French, when the 
drama ended, were seen to be so full of fraud, treachery and 
trickish double dealing that the wonder is they were not seen 
through sooner. They are still preserved and will one day help 
to unmask a consummate scoundrel. 

Let us hasten on toward the denouement. At the combined 
solicitation of Bay and French, in October, Mr. Randolph went 
to visit them in Ohio, and Churchill invited himself apparently 
to go along, and at a cost of over two hundred dollars to Mr. 
Randolph, for Churchill from first to last always refused to pay, 
but sponged his friend. His journey had been previously plan- 
ned between himself and French! In due time the journey 
ended, and Mr. Randolph had the pleasure of beholding Miss 
Susan Bay, an exceedingly fat person, whose age was stated to 
be close on that of her brother's. Mr. Andrew Bay was found 
to be a man of some seventy odd years old, who boasted that he 
never read a book; who consisted principally of poor clothes, 
broad acres, much money, more hair, and strong confederate pro- 
clivities. He had been a doctor without a diploma, and had 
made the astounding discovery that all diseases sprang from the 
presence of bugs in the human economy, and that the universal 
panacea for all mortal ills consisted of frequently repeated doses 
of the best fruit toddy to be made; when you got enough in you 
to make you tight you'd wake up well. It certainly isn't a bad 
remedy to take, for almost everybody liked it, as Randolph found 
out to his cost, for his brain is large and active and cannot stand 
much alcohol. Churchill and French now took long daily walks 
together, and they and Bay proposed to cure Randolph's cold in 
very short order by the "elixir," and only talked business with 



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him when he was under its influence. The contract was agreed 
to, under such conditions, drawn up by Churchill, and had Ran- 
dolph signed it — as he was by Providence prevented from doing, 
all he had in the world, copyrights, plates, office, mail — all 
v/ould have passed from his hands into those of the sharp tri- 
umvirate. 

In order to better carry cut the scheme, French desired Ran- 
dolph to use his influence and power to bring about a marriage 
between a relative of Bay's, by marriage, named Head, and 
Bay's servant girl, an amiable being, with strong constitution, 
defective speech, and decidedly the best cook of poached eggs in 
all the region around about. The object of this scheme was to 
break the connection between the Bays and Head; get the latter 
— who acts as protective guardian of the family, — and they need 
it, — out of the way, so that a clearer field might be open for more 
effective play on Bay's money bags. 

Randolph declined to endeavor to bring about a marriage 
with Head and "that there gal," as French called her, but de- 
voted his spare hours to admiring the beauty and perfections of a 
delicious little neighbor of Bay's, whom he desired to assist in 
the initiation; — a perfect little gem, a flower, a violet. He was 
so smitten with her, in fact, that under the triple influence of 
French-Bay's elixir and resultant spooneytude, he really thought 
he'd like to change her name for his. 

This was just what F. and C. wanted (although Susan op- 
posed it, infavor of a Baltimore relative, said to be a great 
beauty), for then they could not only have a clear chance at 
Bay's estates, but the book affair also — not to speak of sundry oil 
wells, supposed reachable by boring on Bay's lands. But "the 
best-laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglee," and so did 
these, for although they succeeded in ruining Randolph, lighten- 
ing old Bay's pockets by some thousands, yet one of the con- 
spirators is a refugee from Boston justice, and the other is an 
errant quack doctor in some unfmdoutable place in the west, 
with altered name, and hiding from that outraged law which 
Randolph has invoked against him. 

And now two things were done. 1st. Andrew Bay contract- 
ed with P. B. Randolph to take, print, publish, and, through his 
agents, French and Churchill, sell all his works, he to monopo- 
lize the trade, pay Randolph six thousand six hundred dollars, 



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as previously stated herein. On this contract Bay paid Randolph 
various sums, amounting to a little over two thousand five hun- 
dred dollars, balance immediately payable. On the strength of 
this contract and part payment, Randolph put his books in 
printer's hands, paid thereon all that Bay had paid and nearly 
as much more of his own, his child's, and borrowed funds. 2d. 
French had been admitted to probation in the secret society of 
Philosophers; had reported to Bay; Bay had applied for ad- 
mission, and had paid five dollars with his application, and 
both of them demanded his initiation, but vehemently objected 
to that of Mr. Head, both running him down as not half a man, 
and who, they said, intended to apply for admission. He never 
did. In view of these desires of French and Bay, Randolph had 
gone to Ohio with the essentials requisite to put Bay on proba- 
tion, as French had been before him — and on whose suggestion 
Bay had applied. Subsequently to all this French told all he 
knew of the Temple and its workings — which was just nothing 
at all, for no man knows ought of its real secrets till after he 
has been well tried and proved, just as in Western Masonry, that 
other lofty Brotherhood of men. Masonry has its laws, codes, 
rules and dispensations. So has Rosicrucia, so have all the 
brotherhoods of men. Now French had represented to Bay that 
the society was a good thing. If it was a good thing, he was a 
villain for aiming a blow at it! If it was a bad thing, then he 
was a villain for trying to draw the old man into it! If it was 
neither good nor bad, then he was villain for lying about it in 
either way! 

Now it so happened that when a person over sixty years of 
age applies for membership, the laws of the order are that "Sin," 
the man, be confronted with "Innocence," a pure, young girl, 
generally a child; but in this case, as French said, there were no 
pure girls in that burgh he should have to do the best he could, 
and so obtained the services of Miss Bay — "that there gal," — 
as French called her, while the third was the young lady already 
spoken of — a being purer than French's soul ever was or will be, 
in spite his slur that "no pure people lived in that town;" for, 
with the exception of himself and immediate associates, Mr. 
Randolph declared that French's assertion that the folks of 
Leatherwood were all "leather heads," was a rank libel. How 
far it was true in his case has already been seen; while a man 



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who (as Bay did) would assign a fair claim of over two thousand 
dollars to an adventurer, a claim against Mr. Randolph, who 
would have repaid every farthing of it, a man, I repeat, who 
would assign such a claim to a fellow who in turn gave a quit- 
claim for the bagatelle of one thousand books, and then sold these 
very books back again for less than seven hundred dollars, half 
of which probably he left in his lawyer's hands, — must have 
either a large purse, or India-rubber conscience, or leatherish 
brains; yet Bay did that very thing, right square in the face of 
the fact that Randolph had offered to pay the whole sum to any 
honest agent Bay might depute on that errand. 

Be this as it may, Bay took the oath and was admitted to 
the probationary degree of Oalantia. Meantime, wild, undeflend 
rumors began to reach Randolph that Bay was looney, and 
French a "beat." It was also rumored that Randolph was try- 
ing to fleece Bay by pretending to own plates, manuscripts, and 
books, whereas, he had no such property. To settle that matter, 
Bay commissioned Mr. Scott of Bellaire, Ohio, his nephew (and 
chief clerk or partner in the heavy glass works of Captain John 
Fink), to investigate the matter in Boston. Scott did so, and 
went with Randolph and French to his printers, where he soon 
satisfied himself that Mr. Randolph had in no sense equivocated 
or in any way misrepresented actual facts, for Bay himself had 
copies of one book, "Casca Llanna," and Scott saw the others, 
and received several copies as presents. 

Randolph, French and Churchill returned to Boston, wait- 
ed six weeks for funds in vain, at Randolph's expense, and 
finally received notice that no more would be paid. But if Ran- 
dolph had consented to enter his books in French's name, thus 
losing his copyright, no doubt funds would have been found, but 
Randolph did not suspect that, until he found it out behind the 
dungeon bars, where, by rank perjury, French had cast him, as 
will be seen further on. Remember that Churchill, French and 
Bay were sworn brothers of Randolph in the most ancient Ma- 
sonry on the globe! (23) 

True, neither of the three had learned any of its real secrets, 
for these are given to masters only, not to builders — a rank far 
below that of entered apprentice in that other Grand Masonry, 
whose glorious symbolism fools and knaves can neith appreci- 
ate nor comprehend. The trinity of aspirants had reached the 



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"iron door," but it had not yet swung back upon its hinges to ad- 
mit them within the sacred vestibule of the glorious temple. It 
never swings back until he who stands before it can say "/ am an 
honest man!" (See the episode of "Lara" in Mr. Randolph's 
"Ravalette,") — words which but few men among the thousands 
who have stood there waiting have been able from their hearts 
to speak! Trials undreamed of by the neophyte beset his path; 
one man falls through one besetting sin or passion; and another 
through greed, pride, vanity, libertinism — all of which bar the 
gates to him or them. (24) 

December rolled itself away, and Mr. Randolph's hands 
being tied, he shared his money with French — Bay, as he called 
himself — lent Churchill one hundred and twenty dollars, French 
two hundred and sixty dollars, and then a hundred more to go 
to New York to get reviews and supply the trade. New York 
charmed him, he "saw so many nice ladies on the street — after 

dark — who were so polite!" and he got one of them to assist 

him in putting the book in the market ! ! Of course a New York 
publisher would not touch a book offered by such hands. Then 
French-Bay saw Fisk. Fisk was killed and he discovered a 
"gentleman," introduced to him by this "polite lady," and they 
concocted a plan, to, in some way, avail themselves of Fisk's 
generous offer. He returned to Boston. Randolph saw by this 
time that the best thing he could do was to settle with the fellow 
and let him gang his gait. Accordingly, he and French wrote to 
Andrew Bay, for authority to settle the affair, and Bay sent on 
an assignment to French! who no sooner got it in his hands than 
he backed out of a fair agreement to take nineteen hundred dol- 
lars and one thousand books for a perfect release. After which 
Randolph never saw him again for, assassin-like, the assignee 
stabbed him, as it were, in the dark, and then fled to a covert 
to abide the result of the dastardly blow, which took some thirty 
days to mature, and work out its dastardly effects in. 

"Misfortunes never come alone," "Out of the frying-pan 
into the fire," and "It never rains but it pours," are very homely 
old saws, but very truthful ones, nevertheless. Accordingly, 
when Randolph found that his hopes, based on the Ohioan's de- 
ceitful promises, were utterly blasted, and that the unscrupu- 
lous crowd would do their utmost to destroy him, and that his 
last great work on Love bade fair to lay dead for want of means 



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to let the people know of its advent, he began to cast about him 
to find means to avoid utter ruin. He therefore decided to em- 
ploy two ladies as general agents for the book, and he advertised, 
late in December, for a lady agent, in the Boston "Herald." 

This brought several women, and among the rest, one Mert 
La Hue, a portly dame, good-natured in appearance, so-so-ish 
in garb, yet with plenty of self-confidence, reliance, assurance, 
imperturbability, coolness and astonishing self-possession. To 
that woman Randolph explained his position and purpose. She 
"had no capital herself — could easily get it, but objected to un- 
der the circumstances in which she was placed," but proposed 
to advertise for a "partner," and did so in the "Personals" of 
the "Herald." To this there came fifteen responses from males 
— not men — fellows anxious to find mistresses. Eight of the re- 
plies were burned and seven replied to; the replies clearly stat- 
ing the object of the "Personal," which was to engage capital 
for the book trade. In response to these seven answers, three 
men came to Randolph's office, two of whom were vagabonds, 
and the third was a commission merchant of Commercial street, 
named Robert H. Patton. 

Mr. Randolph contracted with La Hue to furnish "Casca 
Llanna" at a heavy discount, on condition that herself and as- 
sociates should take enough copies to amount to nearly three 
thousand dollars, the amount he required to print the work and 
release himself from the French-Bay set. This was agreed to, 
and Jan. 15th set as the limit of the time in which the money was 
to be paid. It was not half paid at that date, nor at this writing. 

A few weeks sufficed to see "Mrs." La Hue established in 
fine rooms, elegantly furnished, with Randolph's books in huge 
lots upon fine shelves — but not the first attempt made to put 
them in the market! — how could a fine lady, who had a fine 
gentleman to back her bills, — himself in bankruptcy at the same 
time — find time to sell books? "Anybody'd be a fool to work 
when money came without it." Now, Mr. Randolph has a child, 
a half invalid from birth, for whom he had been saving a little 
money, all of which, save one dollar, was swept away to pay 
for the books on the shelves of Patton and La Hue! 

But during these wearisome weeks he was studying human 
life in phases never dreamed of before. For instance, he learned 
of deep villanies, such as passing counterfeit money, stealing 



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patents, hiding one's property from creditors; of fraudulent 
bankruptcy; of getting vessels and cargoes insured, and then 
wrecking the vessels; in fact, he found out rascalities compared 
to which, all he had before known of such things paled in com- 
parison. He was done for. 

Days, weeks, months rolled on, yet Captain Patton failed to 
pay; French-Bay and La Hue held a few interviews, and Ran- 
dolph was doner. Please put this and that together, and see 
the reasons why. To tell all his complaints the answer was 
"Bah! that's all theatrical." Finally the Patton La Hue book- 
shop, with its fine furniture, carpets, piano, desks, tables, books, 
— not paid for! — its sofa, chairs and parlor bed, were attached 
for rent. Then came La Hue to the already ruined author, say- 
ing, "Raise me one hundred and fifty dollars; with that I can 
start, pay off immediate debts, repay you in five days; do it, or 
the books will go for less than a song." Well, to raise that 
money Randolph had to give a bill of sale of all his copyrights, 
redeemable in five days. The woman never tried to save him! 
The plates were forfeited, but at the last moment by a coup de 
main the poor fellow induced the holder to exchange the security 
from them to some of her books, not paid for, which accident for- 
tunately threw in his hands. 

One night, while pondering on his losses, an acquaintance 
of Mr. Randolph fell asleep, and dreamed he was on the plains 
of Hell on a gala day. There he saw troops of devils, many old 
acquaintances, several men, and one very superior-looking fe- 
male. He asked the chief devil who that woman was, but the 
imp, instead of answering, turned up his nose at him, then made 
a low bow to the lady, and saluted her with this "theatrical" 
poem : 

" 'She beat her way to the end of time, 
With manner gay and cheek sublime. 
Hail, august queen — thou queanly dame! 
Great empress of the "Boodle game!" 
Flaunt, flaunt thy way along the streets — 
All hail, La Grande, thou queen of "Beats!" 
Swing, empress, swing thy loving arms; 
They'll sweat, and pay who seek thy charms. 
If th' captains fail, lose not thy cheer, 
There's fortunes yet, in shoving "Queer," 



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And boodle fools will bite at straws 
While you escape all penal laws ; 
Go shove thy queer, — in dry goods shops, 
Go pass it off — for malt or hops, 
From the shores of mighty Michigan — 
By help of handsome steamboat man, 
Or him who shrinks from Whitely's thrall, — 
Poor Fred — in far-off Montreal; 
Or "Von" the "Gun" and generous giver, 
(Does he shove queer out in Fall River?) 
Or those who dwell on Dighton's plain 
And ne'er walk out — except it rain — 
To buy umbrells — and pay in notes 
Tens, twenties — dear at seven groats! 
Hail, empress of the queerest post 
From Fanueil Hall to Chicago's ghost ! 
From Oregon to cold Bangor, 
And hot Mobile to Labrador; 
From Frisco's hills to Providence, 
All hail, great queen of "Confidence!" 
Who can resist that winsome ways? 
Not Bob, — e'en with his lengthened days! 
Thy smile wins hearts — detectives fall, 
Give back thy "queer," for Mercy" call. 
While starving authors, ruined quite 
By thee, yet melt within thy sight; 
And fret behind dull prison bars, 
While, nose still pointed t'ward the stars, 
You win! nor lose your wondrous calm, 
Nor care for authors — nor their harm. 
All hail, again, thou queen of sinners ! 
Still eat thy Fera, Stumpke dinners, 
Still swing thy velvet on the street, 
And wind up victims clean and neat. 
Still beat thy way to th' end of time, 
With manner gay and cheek sublime; 
Still frown on all thine own sweet sex, 
And pockets of all rich men vex; 
Go on, La Grande, thy way pursue, 
The de'il himsel' can't equal you.' " 



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Let us pass to another act of the drama. French-Bay and 
his aids saw that it was impossible by any honorable method, or 
by means of a civil suit, to recover the money advanced to Ran- 
dolph, and paid out by him to printers and stereotypers for 
work done, and having procured an assignment of the claim 
from Andrew Bay, the "Bug" theorist, he cast about for other 
means. It is pretty certain that the "polite lady" of New York 
had taken offence at what Randolph had written on "reputable 
concubinage" or Free-loveism, and the bright idea was hatched 
between them to make that very identical and absurd doctrine the 
means to crush him, and get possession of the copyrights of his 
works, — the results of thirty long years of experience and liter- 
ary toil, — among which was that famous "Golden Secret," which 
must be had, by fair means if possible, but fair or foul, be had. 
But how? 

Says the Boston "Daily Globe," in an article concerning 
the "shyster":— 

"Dickens failed to do justice to the Police (or Municipal) 
Court shyster, and we know we cannot do that thing. He is a 
peculiar character. In the days of his early childhood, his 
education was sadly neglected by the cross-roads pedagogue or 
country school-marm whose idea of 'general sufficiency' was 
measured by the space displaced by a single baked bean. The 
shyster is a man of parts. His clothes are not made by a fash- 
ionable tailor of the town, and a fastidious observer might say 
his dress was rusty or inelegant, viewed from the Brummel 
stand-point. He is in his glory while cross-examining a wit- 
ness and squirting the extract of tobacco. With legs crossed 
carelessly, and eyes fixed upon the object of his assault, he in- 
fringes upon the rules of good grammar, and also those of the 
Court. A simple hesitation in a point made plain in testimony in 
chief, is the signal with him for a triumphant facial expression 
and a threatening demonstration with the stump of a Faber No. 
2, upon a piece of paper. An ordinary piece of strategy is 
equivalent to intimidation, and then with an attempt at rhetoric, 
he tries to wear out the patience of the Judge, the five-dollar 
greenback he having previously received, being the motive power 
for all this display of legal lore, (not law). Through the maze 
of his harangue the night-walker in the dock is seen as a model 
of virtue, the professional thief as the pink of honesty, and the 



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vagrant as the possessor of a happy home, free of mortgage. 

"The shyster is a piece of furniture around the court-house. 
He is known of all the habitues of the halls of justice as a 
'bore,' en rapport with the lowest class of criminals, whose 
money, however, will buy as much beef-steak as anybody else's 
money. The shyster is also apt to be filled to the sublime of 
tumidity, and is well qualified to advocate an era of legal ethics 
not laid down in Blackstone or Kent. The shyster can scent a 
poor, miserable criminal in duress afar off, like the noble esquire 
which can snuff the battle afar off. The shyster is a sort of 
necessary 'bore' in the community. He fills a certain place, and 
fills it well, just as an augur fills a round hole, and throws out 
nothing but small chips. The shyster, wherever he may be 
found, is by pretence, at least, an attorney — a 'learned' attorney 
too of the lowest possible grade, and therefore vindictive, base, 
destitute of the faintest pretension to honor ; . a mean, low, con- 
temptible scoundrel — for an honorable member of the bar never 
performs the dirty work such fellows are every ready to advise 
and jump at." 

Now such creatures abound everywhere, and it is more than 
likely that some one, the "polite lady," an Ohio Leatherhead, or 
some unprincipled "what is it," hatched a scheme of such fine 
rascality as deserves a premium, and hence must have originated 
in New York, somewhere on the avenues, for it was altogether too 
brilliant in infamy to have had its birth in Boston. Be that as it 
may, however, an interview took place between LaHue and 
French Bay, and soon afterward, on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 
24th, four men, armed with a search warrant, sworn out by F.-B. 
in all probability, entered Mr. Randolph's rooms, and began to 
search his desk, tables, library, book-shelves, bureau, trunk and 
everything else, diary, old letters, (with the names and dates 
erased, however), for (so the pretense was) Free Love Litera- 
ture!! the very thing that Randolph had been battling against — 
for years — that is, if free-love and sensual license mean the same 
thing. 

At the time Mr. Randolph was sick abed from heart disease, 
and scarce able to speak, yet the wicked work went on. The ob- 
ject will be seen further en. 

In its proper place the writer forgot to state that French - 
Bay knew that Randolph had an insurmountable horror of all 



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confinement, and the plan was to throw him into a dungeon, 
far away from the reach of friends, late at night, and extort from 
Randolph an assignment of all his stereotyped plates and copy- 
rights, while he was in a state of mental agony, bordering on 
madness ! Think of it ! 

The search over, Randolph was taken to a cell; and that 
same night, French-Bay, by his lawyer, and in presence of coun- 
sel, whom a friendly gentleman had kindly sent to Randolph's 
assistance, actually offered to release him, on condition that he 
would assign to this Ohio Bay and French, all his right, title 
and interests, and those of his daughter, in and to his copyrights 
and plates! He was attempted to be extorted of all the results 
of a life of incessant toils; and to satisfy their greed, give up 
what in travel and expense had cost him over fifty thousand 
dollars ! — for to write these books, Randolph had to travel in al- 
most every land beneath the sun, and pass whole months among 
hostile tribes, far beyond the pale of the white man's civilization ! 

The subjoined extracts are copied herein verbatim, save that 
the tenn "Free Love" is substituted for a far grosser one, mean- 
ing the same thing used by unthinking newspaper writers, in 
the various news journals of Boston, Feb. 25, 1872. (25) 

"A Learned Pandit in the Tombs. — Authors are but mortal 
after all, however high in the realms of romance they may soar, 
or however erudite and abstruse may be the emanations from 
their well-springs of knowledge. It is a popular fallacy that the 
pathways of authors and writers are strewn with roses, and that 
beds of down await the coming of their learned though ex- 
hausted owners whenever they shall design to pay tribute to 
'tired nature's sweet restorer,' but it is the purpose of this item 
to contradict this theory, pretty as it is, by a few facts. It will 
be remembered that two weeks ago to-day the 'Herald' chron- 
icled the arrest of one George St. Elmo Symons Ogden, an ex- 
editor, who was afterwards held for trial on a charge of forgery. 
And now comes a bigger man than St. Elmo, one who has seen 
more worlds and heard more tongues than he ever dreamed of, 
or read about. No less a person than Paschal B. Randolph, 
physician, teacher, author, lecturer, philosopher, etc., etc., was 
an inmate of a cell in the First Police Station, on Saturday even- 
ing, from which he was conveyed to a similar apartment in the 
city prison, the said conveyance being by means of a vehicle 



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labelled 'City of Boston.' The cause of the detention of the 
learned gent was specified in a warrant from the Municipal 
Court, which alleges that he was the author of several works 
which were deemed altogether too free-lovish for circulation 
among the moral community which comprises the city of Boston. 
Detectives Ham and Wood made the arrest, and among the 
documents seized were a certain pamphlet or circular, and a 
volume entitled 'The Master Passion, or the Curtain Raised.' 
The latter was full of language of the most free and easy char- 
acter, and entirely unfit for publication or repetition. Randolph 
will be complained of in the Municipal Court on Monday. It 
is said that he is one of the most learned and extensively read 
men in America, is familiar with all the ancient languages and 
literature, and has written numberless works upon philosophy, 
love, religion, and other topics, though few of them have ever had 
an extensive circulation. His acquaintance with prominent and 
influential men of every known nation is said to be extensive, 
and his experience seems to have been as varied as the most 
eccentric could desire. He is a half-breed, the East Indian blood 
being plainly visible in his complexion. His office is in Court 
street, and the officers found a bushel or so of manuscripts which 
had not yet reached the printer's hands. A certain Madame Mert 
La Hue, who has a place in Washington street, is said to be an 
agent of Randolph in the circulation of his publications." 

"Arrest of an Adventurer. — Detectives Ham and Wood 
took into custody Saturday, Paschal B. Randolph, of Court street, 
on the charge of being the author of several publications unfit 
for circulation. Randolph is a very talented man, and has been 
a little bit of everything. He has the title of doctor, and figured 
somewhat conspicuously in Louisiana political troubles just at 
the close of the war. He also made a speech at a National Con- 
vention in Philadelphia a few years ago. He was active in get- 
ting up what was known as the Rosicrucian Rooms on Boylston 
Street about four years ago. He has published a number of books, 
is a man of education and extensive reading, and has travelled 
over nearly all the world. He is decidedly a soldier of fortune. 
He will be brought before the Municipal Court to-day. The 
officers found a bushel or so of unpublished manuscripts at his 
room on Court street. They state that a Madam Mert La Hue 
has been connected with Randolph in issuing the publications." 



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All this, of course, set Boston agog for a new sensation, and 
hundreds were glad of it, not against Randolph, but because 
they knew his ability as an offhand speaker, and ached to hear 
him make his defence, knowing well beforehand what the in- 
evitable result of such an effort would unquestionably be. 

Late on Saturday night French and his co-laborers began to 
find out they were going a little too far, and a little too fast, in 
proof of which the accuser changed his lodgings! and could not 
be found during twelve days' anxious search by several who 
particularly desired to interview the gentleman. ( ? ) 

Early on Monday morning, before Randolph knew the turn 
things had taken, the same Boston papers contained these 
items: — (26) 

"A good deal of Smoke, but no Fire. — They say that the 
course of true love never did run smooth, and on the same au- 
thority, if not better, we are warranted in believing that the 
course of justice is somewhat rough and rutty. In the 'Sunday 
Herald' something of a reportorial photograph was given of a 
'learned pundit,' named Paschal B. Randolph, who was repre- 
sented to be the author of certain Amatory, — in fact Free-Love 
publications and under arrest for the publication of the same. 
Now the officers who had him in custody thought that they had 
him 'dead to rights,' as officers say when they have all the evi- 
dence against a prisoner they want. In this case officers Ham 
and Wood had managed to get possession of certain books and 
circulars that they deemed improper, and laying these publica- 
tions before the judge, the officers secured a search-warrant, and 
on examining Randolph's premises, a large quantity of these 
publications were found, and Randolph placed under arrest. The 
officers, however, were unable to get the case before the court, as 
Judge Chamberlain refused to grant a warrant against him on 
the ground that the works did not come within the meaning of 
the statute relating to indecent publications. So he was dis- 
charged from custody before reaching the dock, where he was 
expected to appear, and where many curious people expected to 
look upon him. The intent of the publications was not to excite 
the passions of young people, as many might at first suppose, 
but to give information on matters relating to marital relations, 
such as is often sought after in medical books and from medical 
men, by both husbands and wives." — Herald. 



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"Much Cry but Little Wool. — The great attraction in court 
this morning was the case of Paschal B. Randolph, said to be a 
professor of physic and metaphysics; a poet and philosopher; a 
lecturer and dabbler in literature, and, taken all in all, a man of 
more than ordinary attainments. He has an office in Court 
street, where his sign is hung out. The offence with which he 
was charged was that of publishing an disseminating certain 
documents alleged to be free-love in their nature and not to be 
placed before the public. He was arrested by Detectives Wood 
and Ham on Saturday evening on a search warrant. 

"This morning Judge Chamberlain, after a thorough 
scrutiny of the doctor's literary effusions, declined to grant a 
warrant on which he could be brought before the court; so the 
'Learned Pundit,' as a sensational reporter of one of our con- 
temporaries styled the doctor, was released from his confinement 
in the tombs, and for the present that's the end of the last sen- 
sation." — Times. 

"No case made out. — Dr. Paschal B. Randolph, who was 
reported under arrest on a charge of publishing free-love books, 
was discharged without an examination in court, it being decided 
that the books did not come within the meaning of the statute." 
— Advertiser. 

"Every now an then brief paragraphs appear in the papers 
chronicling 'the seizure of improper books, and a few days ago 
the 'Herald' told how a 'Learned Pundit,' the world-famed 
Dr. P. B. Randolph, of this city, had been arrested for writing 
and publishing such books. Happily for the 'pundit,' as well as 
for the good name of this city, it appeared on investigation that 
his books were not as vile as painted, but were simply designed 
to convey valuable medical information to their readers." — 
Herald. 

" 'Justice warmly defends Dr. P. B. Randolph and his 
works, and questions the probity of the guardians of public 
morals when they attack such a man, and allow absolutely 
obscene periodicals to be freely circulated. — Herald. 

A NOTE FROM THE "LEARNED PUNDIT." 

Editor Herald — I herewith send you a copy of each of my 
works, "Love the Master Passion" and "Casca Llanna," both 
written in the conservative, of human society, and both dead- 



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set against radical free-lovism, and that's why such a strong 
attempt was made to scare me out of my copyright of the same. 
But the little game didn't work, thanks to an upright judge and 
Deputy Chief of Police Quinn, but for whom I might have lost 
my property. I was imprisoned about two days, and think I 
shall clear at least one thousand dollars a day (for false impris- 
onment) by the operation. That is not bad for a "Learned 
Pundit of Oriental extraction" and anti-free love proclivities. 
Do me the justice to contradict the report that the "Master Pas- 
sion," or any of my works, are immoral. I wrote them for my 
daughter, a pure and spotless child, and I am not the man to 
corrupt the mind of her I love better than all else, save my 
Creator. It was said in your article that Mrs. Mert La Hue 
was my agent. This is, thank God! not so. In conclusion, 
allow me to thank you for what you have said in my behalf. 
Twenty years a resident of Boston, save part of the war time, I 
trust in the future as in the past to merit a good name, and at 
last to quit the world somewhat better for having lived in 
it. (27) Yours, respectfully, 

PASCHAL B. RANDOLPH. 
— Boston Herald. 

Says the Boston "Saturday Evening Express": — 
"The Learned 'Pundit.' — The following is a copy of the 
note accompanying each of the works presented to the press 
for notice and review, thousands of which are in possession of 
the journals all over the land. 'To the Editor, with compliments 
of P. B. Randolph, in behalf of self and Rosicrucian Publishing 
House, Boston, Mass. In issuing the volume herewith presented 
you, we respectfully ask you to give it just such notice as its 
merits fairly claim. In this age of pseudo-philosophical knight- 
errantry, wherein every dabster in logic feels justified in run- 
ning a tilt at all the human virtues, outraging Christian propriety 
and decency, — attempting to. dethrone the very God of heaven 
from the universe, — a corrective was needed, and with that 
view we have issued the rare volume now sent you. Trusting 
and believing that you, with us, will hail this truly inspired 
work, and that you will courteously cause a copy of your notice 



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thereof to be mailed to us, we remain, in behalf of truth, civi- 
lization, healthy and sound philosophy 
"Yours respectfully, 

"P. B. Randolph." 

On the very day Randolph was arrested, the papers an- 
nounced that "Mr. Hep worth Dixon is still pressing his suit for 
libel against the 'Pall Mall Gazette.' The paper charged him 
with writing obscene books, which went against his feelings just 
ten thousand pounds worth." 

And he has since gained his suit, for his work, "Spiritual 
Wives," instead of being an incentive to immortality, is an ex- 
posure of the polygamous sophisms of Mormonism, Perfection- 
ism, and things of that sort, just as Randolph's are, and ever 
have been, devoted to the elucidation of mysteries of human 
affection which no other writer has had either the courage or 
ability to even undertake. 

Among those who questioned Mr. Randolph concerning the 
contents of his two books on love, was a committee of ladies, to 
whom he said: "If there was an angel in heaven who took ex- 
ceptions to the morals of those books, I should blush for the 
angels! — that's all." And full well did they who instigated the 
persecution knew the base charge would fall at the first trial. 
If they did net, why did the searching crowd take from Mr. 
Randolph, F. B. Dowd's works on Physiology, and never re- 
store them? why did they take from him and lay before the 
Judge a physiological letter, written to a physician by Dr. Ran- 
dolph, and printed for private circulation by a friend of his, — ■ 
F. Smith, M. D., to whom Mr. Randolph sold out his medical 
practice in 1870 — and the only copy of which belonging to Mr. 
Randolph he himself handed to the searchers, after they had 
searched everywhere? — and which copy French-Bay had seen, 
and Randolph had put aside with memoranda, at the request of 
French-Bay himself, for the express purpose of embodying its 
principles in a work he had undertaken to write for Andrew Bay 
of Leatherhead or Leatherwood, — the long-haired sage of the 
universal Bug theory of disease, — for the reason that said sage 
could not correctly write the king's English himself — not even 
half as well as could his factotum and doer of dirty work — W. 
T. French-Bay, who spells dog with an r! 



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If those who tried to rob a child of the labors of her fa- 
ther's life did not know they were outraging human justice, why 
was Mr. Randolph taken to a far-off dungeon, half a mile from 
his office, when the Court House and Central Police Office are 
within a hundred yards of his door? Yet he was so hurried off, 
and when there dungeoned, and the only friend who know of the 
foul doings denied admission to see him, until that friend pro- 
cured counsel and made a combined effort which dared not be 
refused! Before he was taken from that dungeon to another, 
the counsel for French, the man who did the "legal" part of the 
business, came to that dungeon, and in presence of Randolph's 
counsel offered to release him if he would assign all his copy- 
rights to the honorable Bay, French and Company. Mr. Ran- 
dolph, smarting under the sting, indignantly told the lawyer 
that he'd "see them all in hell first," a strong expression, but 
wrung from him by the barefaced attempt to wrong himself and 
daughter. 

Is it right to class an unfortunate arrested one with known 
thieves and social vampires ? I think not, and yet Mr. Randolph 
was imprisoned in the same cell with men whose every word was 
a ribald oath; whose breath was a pestilence, and over whose 
persons vermin swarmed in countless thousands. 

Do you wonder that Randolph nearly went mad with agony? 
Can you find it in your heart not to pity him? Lastly, will you 
not help him to regain some portion of what he has lost, by 
helping to circulate his works, or inviting him to lecture before 
audiences of your own collecting? Reader, I feel that this ap- 
peal in his behalf will not have been made in vain. When Ran- 
dolph went into that cell, he had two gold studs in his shirt 
front; when he came out they were — gone. Now is it right to 
thrust even a semi-decent man in the same cell with a low drunk- 
en thief ? 

At last Monday morning came, and Mr. Randolph sent for 
Mr. Quinn, the gentlemanly Deputy Chief of Police, and to him 
he told the whole story. The result was that the persecutors 
were foiled, and Randolph was unconditionally released from 
that thrall, without even an examination at the bar, simply for 
the reason that a just judge saw through the meshes, and decreed 
that wrong should not triumph on that occasion, and in the court 
over which he presided. Randolph is not the man to ever forget 



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a kindness, and it may be that he will have a chance to prove 
his gratitude to that judge, and all others who then did, do now, 
or hereafter do, him a good turn. Before, however, Randolph 
knew the result, and that he was free, French's lawyer had 
forced him to assign to French one thousand books, being all 
those upon his own shelves, and some hundreds borrowed from 
Patton and La Hue, of the Washington street rare establishment 
— and queer as rare. 

I am but one of hundreds who have heard Randolph speak 
on love, true and false, before rapt audiences where even breaths 
w r ere suppressed beneath the powerful spell of his almost super- 
natural earnestness and power, and I have heard him discuss the 
free-love system, which he denounced as the most devilish doc- 
trine that ever emanated from the lips of men. No doubt many 
were struck by the glowing pictures which he painted of the ter- 
rible consequences of such a doctrine, and all admired his splen- 
did portraiture of the tender thoughtfulness, the ineffable con- 
sideration, and the unlimited kindness of the Father of his ador- 
ation, whose name is the God of Love, and he bade his hearers 
love only in such a way as would merit the sanction of a culti- 
vated conscience, and the approval of eternal God. 

Randolph, always powerful and clear, is never so forcible, 
never so logical, never so eloquent, as when denouncing the fol- 
lies of the present or demolishing the long-standing supersti- 
tions of the past. If he is enthusiastic and audaciously deter- 
mined in the defence of his own convictions, he is uncompromis- 
ing in his attacks upon what he esteems the false teaching of his 
opponents. And yet, the newspapers of Boston, who so well 
know the unreliability of flying reports, eagerly published the 
dastardly falsehoods again his good name, and not one of them 
fairly retracted the slander. 

To conclude this second act of the drama, Mr. Randolph's 
losses, costs and expenses consequent upon the persecution 
amount to nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, and 
he has been compelled to give a bill of sale of all his stereotype 
plate. 



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PART THREE 

THE FREE-LOVE TRIAL 

A paper now before me gives this graphic account of 
"AN ILL-MANNERED DONKEY. 

At one of the theatres, a few nights ago, a donkey — not a 
human, but a quadrupedal one — took it into his head not to go 
on the stage at the time he was wanted. As they attempted to 
lead him forward he began to kick, and he kept it up until he 
had smashed things up pretty badly. Net content with knocking 
over two men, he devoted his attention and his heels to the 
scenery, and before they could stop him he had kicked over a 
castle and a range of mountains, put his foot through a lake on 
which the moon was beaming, overthrown a large city in the 
midst of a plain and ruined the plain, and demolished an entire 
palace belonging to a prince of fabulous wealth. The play was 
seriously marred, and the scene-painter had a good deal to do 
next day to get things in proper shape. A donkey can do a great 
deal when he gives his whole strength of mind and body to it." 

And so with these Ohio saints ! They little dreamed of the 
enormous stir they were creating when they began their raid en 
Randolph. As already seen, no case was made out by them or 
those who did their cruel work. Their outrageous attempt to 
get possession of the copyrights of his works failed also, but the 
persecution did two things not calculated upon by them: 1st. It 
gave Mr. Randolph a wider public than he had ever known, and 
carried the fame of himself and books where neither had been 
known before; and in the second place led to the subjoined trial 
of the free-love question; for right on the heels of French-Bay, 
et als fiasco, came a heavier charge against him, not for his 
property as a motive, but on a direct question of amative phil- 
osophy and morals. Eay-French's case was in a police court; the 
free-love trial was before the most august tribunal in the land ! 
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from the open charge to the verdict; or to detail everything said 
on either side. Mr. Randolph was not prosecuted for property's 
sake, as in French-Bay's case; nor was he charged with being a 
practical free lover, or one who disrespected womankind; but he 
was accused of a heavier offence, and arraigned on the fearful 
accusation of being a dangerous citizen of the country; — a man 
of undoubted talent and ability, who used that talent to debauch 
and demoralize the entire country by publishing books so sys- 
tematic and eloquently setting forth the alluring doctrines of 
freedom, that whatsoever man or woman read them straightway 
became an advocate of that ism, and a disciple of whoever was 
the leader of that movement. (28) 

To this charge he pleaded "not guilty," and defied the 
world to convict him of even one single page detrimental to strict 
morality. 

He conducted his own defence. 

By the conditions of the case three sides were represented 
in the trial — 1st; the government, prosecuting Mr. Randolph — 
represented by the Hon. Adolphus Skinner; (29) 2d; Mr. Ran- 
dolph in self denfence, forced to fight a very able antagonist 

— Mr. Skinner; and 3d; Mr. Selden Beaumont, representing the 
free-love interest, for the sake of defending certain witnesses, 
and indirectly influencing the legislative body then in session, 
and anxiously watching the case, because of an impending effort 
toward giving legal sanction to marriages a convenance. Thus 
stood the case. The arguments of all three, and the summing 
up of the testimony, are herein fully, fairly given. 

The jury, by special agreement, were selected from all the 
religious sects in the State; there being one each of the faiths 
Episcopal, Shaker, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Methodist, Unitar- 
ian, Spiritualist, Infidel, Calvinist, Catholic, Adventist, and one 
Budhist. Their nationalities were as varied as their beliefs, 
there being one each of French, African, Asiatic, German, Eng- 
lish, American, Spanish, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Russian, and 
Swedish nationalities. 

The Court having been called to order, the prosecuting 
attorney arose and said: — 

Gentlemen of the Jury, you have patiently through this long 
week listened to the testimony in this case. You have heard 
scores of witnesses for and against the prisoner at the bar. It 



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has been both proved and admitted that this man has enjoyed 
a popularity as a writer on love, never before accorded to any 
man living or dead! — Ovid, Michelet, and Aristole not excepted. 
You have heard, and it is proven by the testimony of hundreds, 
that on the subject of the tender passion he wields both tongue 
and pen of such almost supramortal eloquence and power, as to 
be well-nigh irresistible, and for that reason, and because of 
that self-same eloquence and power — that base and ignoble pros- 
titution of talent and genius — that dreadful and stubborn 
persistency in adhering to a course detrimental to the welfare of 
society, he is all the more dangerous to the best and highest 
interests, not only of society, but of the civilization of the cen- 
tury ! He is undoubtedly, because of his learning, his deep read- 
ing and research, his philosophical acumen and broadly scientific, 
attainments, beyond all reasonable doubt the most dangerous 
man and author on the soil of America, if not of the entire globe ! 
(Sensation in the court room). He has actually boasted of 
his free-loveism not only in his books, but also in the memorable 
answer he gave his Honor the Judge now upon the bench, to 
whose question, 'Mr. Randolph, what has been your experience?' 
he replied, T have loved, not wisely but too muchly!!' (Smiles 
from the ladies, who looked on the dejected prisoner with pitying 
and curious eyes), and he had the unblushing effrontery to 
print that sentence in his work, 'Walks among the women' — the 
book called 'Casca Llanna.' In seeking a verdict against this 
man, I am actuated not by prejudice against him, but by a stern 
and vigorous sense of justice. The prosecution does not charge 
this man with Libertinism in the usual sense of that term, (30) 
for he is too intellectually refined for that; nor with seduction, 
either of innocent girls or other men's wives, for he is undoubted- 
ly morally incapable of the first, and too sharp for the second. 
Not on either of these grounds do we claim a conviction; but on 
the ground that his writings are calculated to unhinge the social 
door, and let in upon society a set of doctrines which must result 
in making all our wives and daughters shriekers for liberty to do 
as they please, and remove themselves from under the wholesome 
restraint now exercised over them. For instance, in one of his 
books he uses this language, word for word, 'If married men will 
be fools and play the Oliver, they are double-dotted ninnies if 
they think their wives won't play a Roland thereto! Why, the 



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thing is done in Sultan's harems even, and the man don't live 
who can outv/it a woman!' Again, 'I fully justify any and 
every woman in getting a husband by any art or means within 
her power — magic, (or magnetic), sympathy, or any other 
method.' And still again, 'In Casca Llanna' you will find these 
words, alluding to a husband's kiss not quite too full of what 
the author calls 'Soul,' 'Scarcely does the sound of such a kiss 
break upon the still air than the telegraph from his lips records 
the word "Humburg," on the tablets of her soul. She is instant- 
ly and perfectly aware of the fact, even if, as is likely, she keeps 
mum about it and says, nothing; while just as like as not again, 
she smiles a smile within herself, as she realizes her abundant 
ability, and willingness, and knowledge of where to obtain the 
genuine article; or, if not so far gone as that, then such a kiss 
suggests the necessity of so doing at the very first convenient 
opportunity; and if there is one thing above another that a 
disappointed or discontented woman knows how to make it is 
an opportunity!' 

There, gentlemen of the jury, if those extracts are not fair 
and open, yet skilfully worded — very skilfully worded incentives 
to the practice of the free-love philosophy, then the language is 
not understandable! Sirs, I have read this book, this "Casca 
Llanna," and with so much power, such almost supra-mortal 
tact and eloquence is it written, that only by the most herculean 
efforts of the will, was I able to resist its logic, or to avoid being 
utterly swept along its tide by the vast fascination centred in 
every page and in almost every line ! What do the witnesses on 
the stand say of that book and its mate, "Love and its Hidden 
History?" Let me repeat the substance of their united testimony. 
I need not call names, as you heard what these dozen or more 
women had to say, which, condensed, is to this effect and most 
decided meaning. They declared: "We have read this man's 
books. There is not a single improper line, word or sentence in 
them all, but' (gentlemen, mark these words!) 'but the effect, 
the effect! for it is so fascinating, that whatever woman, be she 
maiden, wife or widow reads them, straightway and forthwith, 
from that moment, not only neglects all other interests and occu- 
pations whatever, but immediately bends her entire energies of 
mind and heart to study — of what, gentlemen of the jury? Why, 
love, sirs! But this author tells us that's just exactly what all 



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women are made for! He tells us she is a living form of the 
eternal beauty of the universe (31) — which may be true; but I 
ask what phase of love ? The high and pure and holy, or the vile 
and volcanic passions now running riot on the earth? Let me 
read on. "She forthwith knows, thinks — in fact, after reading 
him she's all love — because she has learned for the first time, 
perhaps, just what her soul calls for, was born to give, and im- 
periously demands, and she learns the rules laid down by this 
author, not how to stir a man's baser nature, but to seize hold 
upon his very soul itself, by means of his 'magnetic laws,' and the 
like — (a dangerous power to trust to any one, much less weak- 
brained women, gentlemen). All a woman thinks of or cares for 
after reading Randolph is to get the upper hand, not merely of 
brothers, lovers, husbands, but of any other man who happens 
to strike their fancy." Gentlemen, even yourselves are not safe 
from attack; if a Randolphite happens to get her eye on you, 
the game's up and you are — lost! (Great and intense sensation 
in the court and jury box, at which the culprit smiled). Yes, I 
repeat, lost, no matter who the man be, even if, so to speak, 
panoplied in triple steel, he is powerless before the woman who 
has imbibed the Pythagoric doctrines of this arch-agapist, this 
delver into hidden things, this traveller through sunny lands, and 
some say ''summer lands" as well, this universal lover if not free- 
loveist, who boldly tells woman that she counts for a great deal 
more than the best man living, if she but knew her real self — 
tells her that she's a great deal finer, abler, if she but knew how 
to exert her awful power, than the doughtest man that treads the 
earth! Such is the tendency of his teaching. What's the con- 
sequence, as testified by this score of females? Why, that, fired 
by the enthusiasm of this weird magician, fascinated by the 
desire to test their new-found power, they grow restive and rest- 
less ; gradually the bolder doctrines of the open-boast free-lovers 
are imbibed; the dream of conquest and freedom, suffrage and 
the like, agitate their waking thoughts and sleeping visions, until 
at last, grown sharp, cunning, sure and fearless, they throw off 
all restraint, and we are plunged neck-deep in the resistless 
torrent of a social revolution and domestic cataclysm, wherein 
men must take back seats and universal woman come to the 
front! 

Randolph himself, in describing the effect of one of his 



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books, "Casca Llanna" on W. T. French-Bay, said that man: — 
" 'Raaly thought his soul would melt, 
Lord! how funny he must have felt!' 
''because the Ohioan's soul was in the wrong spot, like the ship- 
carpenter's sons whom sailors tell of." 

Eut to another phase of this cause celebre. Only a short 
time ago, this man, this philosopher, who has seen fit to pervert 
the grand mental powers with which the august Creator endowed 
him — for it were useless for me to declare an imposter and 
pretender one whom all the world knows and acknowledges to 
be no common man, but in reality one of the most studied and 
best-learned men on the continent, and therefore, more culpable, 
this learned Theban, this professor of a hundred sciences and 
tongues, (32) was placed under arrest on account of these very 
books. This trial is to put an enduring injunction upon them, 
and to totally suppress their future publication, and is there- 
fore justifiable; the first arrest was a palpable prostitution of 
public law to compass private ends (32) and it therefore justly 
failed in its object, though leading directly to the present one, 
which is, gentlemen, not persecution but prosecution; please 
remember this in reaching your verdict. If the prisoner will 
annul his copyrights, the case shall cease at once; if not we 
must pursue it, even if, to him, the bitter end. This he refuses 
unless the laws compel him, which they cannot, unless you by 
your verdict declare them to be immoral. If you do not so 
declare them, then he will be free to go on, and before two years 
pass by, hundreds of his works will be in every village of the 
land. 

During the search of his premises, vast numbers of letters 
to him were found, from women and men in all ranks of life 
apparently; but as if with prescient eye, he had taken the extra- 
ordinary precaution to number these letters, and then erase the 
mailing places, signatures and dates! And yet when it became 
necessary to establish all three, he did so by reading them from 
his marginal note on each, where, in the Chaldaic language he 
had marked, so that but few in America but this linguist could 
read them. Now I ask if his correspondence was pure and 
legitimate, why all this secrecy and care to conceal the identity 
of the writers? For instance, here is a specimen, all of which 
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"March 28, 1872. 
"Dr. Randolph: — 

"My Dear Sir: — Will you please tell me how I can make 
my dear wife love me? (Right opposite in Randolph's handwrit- 
ing are these words: 'Love her and treat her well, you fool!') 
how can I regain her affection? I believe that she once loved 
me dearly, devotedly; but I fear that I have alienated her from 
me by harsh ways, hasty temper, fault-finding, unkindness, 
and even crual treatment. She says she does not, and never can, 
love me again. I have read your book"Casca Llanna,"which I pur- 
chased in New York, and I have, after trying every means I 
could think of to regain her love, at last decided to take the 
liberty of asking you if you will help me in my dire distress, and 
have the same compassion on me that other good friends have 
had on you when you needed sympathy and help. I do not 
write this to learn from mere curiosity, but only because I am in 
need of what I ask. I shall consider what you tell me strictly 
confidential — (Here R. has pencilled 'This man needs the 
Golden Secret') — and shall faithfully keep it to myself, and 
esteem the knowledge a boon in very truth. We have been mar- 
ried eight years. Pray send me the information, and that right 
speedily, I implore you, that I may not lose a precious moment 
in the application of the remedy, and if you can do aught to save 
us God will bless you for it." 

And so from all over the wide country, from crowded city 
to hillside cabin, men and women, married and single, rich and 
poor, of all lands, tongues, grades of life, custom, color and 
religion, write to this man, whenever they seek light on dark 
subjects, or relief from social and domestic ills and troubles. He 
knows, and he only, how many five and ten dollars, and heavier 
presents he has received for his advice. That point does not 
concern us, but this does: — What are the means this Agapistic 
sage makes use of to minister unto minds and loves diseased? 
For that he does use means, and does succeed, is beyond all 
question, as has been proved in the course of this trial. (34) 
What is this "Golden Secret?" None of us here know, and 
those who do are bound not to reveal it. If this man's art was 
like that of the thousand and one impostures afloat in the world, 
the same people would not write again and again, giving new 
presents for benefits received. But the question is, what is the 



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nature of these benefits? what magnetic or Agapic or Aelotic 
art does he bring into play? — imported from the far-off hills of 
Asia, whither he went after them. 

What strange lore is this which he learned among the 
Druses, and Nusaireh of Syria; the Guebres of Persia; the Arabs 
of the desert; the Turk in Stamboul and the swart sages of 
sweltering Negro-land? Are they not unlawful, unlit to be 
transplanted on this soil ? Gentlemen, the "Voudeaux" of Louis- 
iana, the delvers in black magic, are a terrible set, alike feared, 
dreaded and placated by whites and blacks. Yet this man was 
their master, openly defied them all, exposed their secrets to their 
faces, laughed them to scorn, and actually brought their king and 
queen to his feet! (35) How did he do it? There are men 
today in Boston — one a manager of a theatre who was present in 
New Orleans in 1865, when Randolph publicly lectured en, and 
exposed the "Voudeaux." Whence his power? What does it 
mean? Have we an Appolonious, an Agrippa, a Cagliostro, 
among us? It must be, yet cannot be, for this man believes in 
God and worships him; trains his children in the same faith, 
and claims to work his wonders solely through celestial, although 
mystic means. (36) 

To see this man philosophers cross the seas from India's 
hills ; sages from France ; mandarins from China ; noblemen from 
England; thinkers from Germany; negroes from the South; and 
even the crowned kings invite him to their courts, where he 
passes in and out, the proudest king among them all! (37) 
How does lie do it? In 1858, he broke from the ranks of the 
party he belonged to (38) and that whole creed united almost 
to a man to crush him out. How did it result? He stood 
firmer and rose higher than ever! Whence the power? At this 
very moment he stands literally stripped of all he owned in the 
world. How long will he stay so ? Wait and see ! 

Nov/, gentlemen, let me call your attention to other points 
of his career. 

Over twenty years ago, Mr. Randolph was known to be a 
Rosicrucian, and in that period he ascended the steps of that 
mystical brotherhood, outstripping thousands and rushing past 
hundreds of gray-beards in the mental race, until he attained 
the chieftainship of the true Rosicrucians in America and the 
Isles of the Seas, and finally to the supreme High Priesthood of 



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the Order and Grand-Mastership of the combined Lodges of the 
earth likewise, reaching the double office through his absolute 
defiance of poverty and wealth, and persistent pursuit of ideas 
alone! Now, then, it is, and for centuries has been, the car- 
dinal belief of this celebrated fraternity of scientists, thinkers 
and seers, that, injuries aside, death can be kept at bay almost 
at will (whence volantia, decretism and posia, (39) the three 
grand steps of their temple), and in any case for a long period 
after that in which a man would, ordinarily, die. The world of 
men generally hold that diseases of the human body are located 
either in the bleed, bones, flesh and humors, theories which all 
Rosicrucians laugh to utter scorn, as being babyish, puerile and 
silly. For they hold that all diseases of the body take their 
rise, form, shape, character and intensity in the emotive system 
of the human economy; in a word, that whatever disturbs or 
disorganizes the love element in human kind induces all the 
phases of disease known to the race. (40) The same disturb- 
ances also originate all the moral ills of mankind and are 
responsible for every gibbet, gallows, murder, rape, war, theft, 
robbery, incest, abortion, arscn, lying, slander, grog-shop, pesti- 
lence, famine, insanity, and every other evil in the world includ- 
ing free-love run wild, and every other abomination on the 
planet. One thing is curious. No Rosicrucian doctor was ever 
known to lose a patient! (41) 

They hold that every domestic broil, family quarrel, divorce, 
scrofula, constable, lawyer, counterfeiter, perjurer, and similar 
transitionalisms, all come from disturbances of the love-nature 
of the species, and can never be abolished until the Shiloh of 
healthful love shall come. 

This is Randolph's gospel, the chief of the Order, taken 
from his very lips and confirmed by every member in the land. 
(42) Well, when a person is ill, instead of telling him or her 
to show their tongue, they say, "How's your heart's affections?" 
and by various means put them in order and the cure's complete; 
for they hold that whatever will restore and build up the agape 
or love-nature will both heal the body, invigorate the will, re- 
juvenate the soul, and banish hell from every hearth and discord 
from every fireside. Well, acting on these axioms of the order, 
it has, for ages, sought, first through alchymy, then modern chem- 
istry, for the magneto-dynamic connecting link betwixt matter 



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i ■ 

and spirit, body and soul, in a word, the universal catholicon or 
elixir of life; and from their researches have sprung hundreds 
of triumphs of the physician and the chemist's subtle arts. 

Twenty years ago Randolph began his part of the work. 
(43) Fifteen years ago he suddenly disappeared from the 
American continent. When next heard from he had not only 
made the tour of Europe, circulating in the highest literary, 
philosophical, scientific, even royal circles, but among the most 
secret, mystical societies of England and France. (For an 
account of his astounding experiences in Paris, and with Napo- 
leon III, see his "Ravelette." — Editor), and had penetrated 
Greece, Syria, Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, until at length the "Lon- 
don Times" and New York "Herald" correspondents announce 
him as the favored guest of the Abyssinian king, Theodore, and 
his black majesty of Dongola; and he passed everywhere unques- 
tioned, unscathed by serpent, climate, beast or man! Not only 
so, but by some secret means and power, penetrating with im- 
punity the wild fastnesses of savage men, which no other native 
of a Christian land, not even Livingstone, Baker, Gould, dim- 
ming, Hue, Bird or Tytler had even ventured to distantly 
approach; and all this journey bent on discovering the grand 
secret which the arch-fraternity had been seeking during two 
hundred — not years — but centuries, this universal medicine, 
which all men feel really does exist somewhere in nature, and 
that was to heal all disturbances of human, physical love-nature, 
chemical, organic and magnetic, nervous and dynamic alike, thus 
restoring the equilibrium between the natural forces, then, by 
reaction and reflection, curing those of the immortal part like- 
wise — a grand theory, if it be really true, which they believe, and 
others doubt. If true, as they claim, then the result of its action 
would be to prolong man's stay on earth, bring strength to the 
worn-out woman, restore the vigor of youth to senile, hoary age, 
increase the vital energy of the exhausted student, and perpetuate 
the health of universal man. 

These people, Randolph included, while disclaiming full 
success, declare a very near approximation thereto, and the name 
of the elixir is proto-ozone, or protozone for short. 

Let that stand at present, but what I am aiming at is this: 
By what strange bond are these men, for I believe there never 
was but two women in the order, (44) really bound together v 



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savage, civilized, coarse, refined, ignorant boor and polished pro- 
fessor, barbaric chieftain and gentle poet alike, in one common 
brotherhood, not, say they, confined to earth either, but rising by 
successive steps, grade after grade, hierarchy after hierarchy in 
the starry heavens, is lost to mortal fancy as they sweep away 
into the awful fields of the further sky! (45) How are these 
people so firmly, strongly knit together? How do they know 
each other? and why, except in extraordinary instances, do they 
sternly refuse aid from each other, when in danger or difficulty ? 
— wholly unlike any other society on earth. Why do they covet 
martyrdom and glory in their pain? I have no doubt that were 
this very Randolph to give the word, not only would relief 
come from them to him, but that his fees would suffer. Why 
do they not give the word? (46) Is it because some strange 
mystic glory blossoms out of their anguish, which they know 
will come if they but endure? This must be it, and therefore 
they are abnormal, consequently should be suppressed, as I hope 
Randolph will be. 

How is it that in all ages the records substantiate the strange 
fact that these men seemingly laugh at death and defy disease? 
They are always poor. 

Mr. Connor says that once, in a moment of confidence, Ran- 
dolph told him he despised wealth for himself, that he wanted 
money enough to leave his daughter three hundred a year till 
she died, but was anxious to get money that he might stereotype 
all his works, so that after his death the Rosicrucians could cir- 
culate them at but little over the cost of press-work, paper and 
binding. What a strange ambition! Utterly careless of fame 
and glory, this Rosicrucian yet lives and hoards like a miser, not 
money, but leaden plates stamped with his thought, for the world 
to read when he is dead. (47) Truly this is strange, and were 
his books other than they are, at least some of them, I could not 
find it in my heart to prosecute such an unselfish and self-sacri- 
ficing man, for he is such, in spite of his great error; there's not 
the slightest doubt that he believes himself right, while I know 
he is wrong; and even though he is, and duty compels me to 
urge this case against him, yet when I glance at the wonderful 
fact I have just disclosed, a fact related by Mr. Connor, imparted 
in secrecy by Randolph to him, there's something inside con- 
tinually urging me to speak the words, "Go, Randolph, you are 



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free!" But public duty forbids their utterance. (Scores of 
people were moved to tears by this confession of the prosecuting 
attorney). But their voluntary poverty indicates Budhistic char- 
acteristics; for not only do these Rosicrucians scatter wealth 
when in their grasp, in charities mainly, (48) but I have heard it 
stated that they regard Narwana, or final blending with Deity, as 
the great end of all life and all endeavor. They will not kill 
either animal or man, no matter what the provocation in the 
latter case may be; nor will they eat salt, or break bread know- 
ingly with an atheist, libertine, harlot, thief, defrauder, traitor 
or slanderer ! — these seven. Hence the institution is not adapted 
at present to American soil, for if you extract all the above from 
the population, it will not require a large continent to hold 
those that are left! (Of course this was a "goak" of the coun- 
sellor. — Editor. ) 

Seriously: Is it safe to tolerate a body of men whose 
secrets are deeper than the grave ; whose ulterior aims are known 
only to initiates of the third degree? (49) men who pursue an 
idea for centuries, by line and succession, with unabated energy 
and unflagging zeal, and whose loftiest offices pass by crowned 
kings and settle upon the weary shoulders of a coffee-carrier of 
Arabia, a German chemist, or a man of no position in the world ! 
Again I ask, by what means does the prisoner, and ethers like 
him, attain to knowledge surpassing those of earth's best schools ? 
— for instance, this man cannot read a note of music, yet he 
writes it, and discusses it scientifically and correctly. He is no 
astronomer, yet predicts a comet eight months before the glass 
detects it in the sky? He knows nothing about money, yet fore- 
tells to Horace Hay, one of the first financiers in the land, the 
greatest money panic of modern days, seven months before it was 
even dreamed of; and it is on absolute proof that he foretold the 
last French Revolution and Prussia's sudden rise, nine years 
before they came to pass, for "Ravalette" was printed nine years 
prior to 1870. (50) Again, this same man, lecturing to a 
Boston audience, pointed to three men and said, "Death is on 
swift wing flying toward one of you!" And the funeral sermon 
of one of them was preached on that stand two weeks from that 
very day! Again, three sharp men of Boston contract with him 
to manufacture his protozone at five hundred dollars a month, 
and five thousand dollars at the end of two years, yet in the 



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full tide of success, he cancels the trade, and actually prefers to 
write books and eke out a precarious living, to enjoying a fine 
income, with the absolute certainity of a splendid fortune in a 
very few years. 

But we left him among the Oriental savages. After three 
years' absence he returned, announced his protozone, sells a few 
thousands of it, and then suddenly gives up that trade, and 
devotes himself to writing books; first, his "Pre- Adamite Man," 
which Lincoln, (51) the lamented, asked to have dedicated to 
himself; then a mystical work concerning man and his chances 
after death; then another still stranger, in which he tells every- 
body how to become magnetic clairvoyants ; and before these are 
fairly off the press, he dashes off another work called "Love and 
its Hidden History." Of this work I hold in my hand a review 
by the refined and learned Marian Dennys, which I will now 
read to you. "When I had read three pages of the book, I threw 
it down, quite disappointed, for I had heard it highly spoken of. 
There it lay for a week. In those three pages, however, I had 
found one single point of interest — and that was a woman's idea 
(Julia Ward Howe's Polarity, a study of sex), which induced me 
to re-read the thought. I did so, was tempted to read a little further 
— and then it was impossible to lay it down again. I marvelled 
whether a man really wrote that most masterly analysis of a 
woman or not. If written by a lady I could understand her, she 
must have suffered; if by a man, then his sex belied him, for the 
female soul was imminent in every line, on every page. Leaf 
after leaf I turned, hour after hour slipped away, still I sat 
eagerly devouring the feast before me, and although I thought 
some of it was rather overstated and crude, yet on the whole 
I was so well pleased, that — would you believe it — when at last 
I laid it down, a whole night had gone, and a new day had 
broken in upon me, for not till the gleaming sun rays over the 
eastern hills glided into my room did I realize that I had been 
cheated of my slumber by the weird and earnest soul of the book. 
You have asked what my opinion of it is. Frankly, let me con- 
fess, I do not like it all. Some parts I admire, they are so fine, 
so tender, and withal so sadly plaintive and mournfully true; 
but on the other hand it bears evidence of too much haste, as if 
the writer was working for his next dinner, and could not get it 
till his task was over; but, taken altogether, it is certain that 



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nothing I ever read gave me such an insight into the deeper and 
sublimer mysteries of the divine passion; and never before did I 
realize fully, the meaning of its grosser counterfeit, the ignoble 
fire that burns in coarser moulds, and covers woman's path, 
alas! too often, with red hot ashes and smouldering dead men's 
bones. Evil? I cannot yet tell whether the book's effect was 
that, or whether it was a grateful satisfaction that I had learned 
from a master the sometime valuable secret of power. 

Assuredly I realized that if a woman of unprincipled mould 
had read the book carelessly it was quite possible for her to con- 
clude that thenceforth all men, to her, were to be but marionettes, 
to be played upon at will and pleasure, and be made to dance and 
whirl and turn topsy-turvey at her will and bidding. I can also 
conceive how, if her corresponding alter ego were to read it in the 
same way, without the restraints of morality and conscience, he 
might possibly use the knowledge of woman nature thus 
obtained, to the great disadvantage and injury of his mother's 
sex, for really the book, as its sequel, "Love, Woman and Mar- 
riage," is a new revelation, another world opening before the 
reader. Perhaps it is well that the circulation of all books is 
necessarily limited, for I can conceive that if every household 
possessed either of these volumes, the reign of the sterner sex 
would very quickly terminate everywhere, for while they are not 
woman's right's works, they both tell her what her real rights 
are, (52) and how to get them, in utter silence, too; hence, if 
woman's rights in that sense is wrong, then these two are the 
most dangerous books in the world; for before the strength and 
power of a woman armed with the knowledge he lays bare, the 
proudest man on earth would be as potter's clay. Let women gen- 
erally comprehend the author's principles and exert their force 
systematically, and from that moment woman becomes queen of 
the world, and sole arbitress of its destinies." 

There, jurymen, what think you now of this author and his 
works? Is not this unbiased judgment of a clear-headed, pure- 
hearted, highly-cultured expert, proof strong as holy writ that 
these two, ay three, books should be suppressed, and their author 
prohibited from circulating any more? (53) True, not an inde- 
cent word, or indelicate allusion occurs in any of them, (54) but 
their piths, their marrow, their essence and subtle meaning is 
what makes the trouble, for what with his books on love, his 



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protozone, magnetic laws and principles, the very devil will be 
to pay in society at large, among the men, but especially the wo- 
men, for the very foundations of a true and conservative social 
order are undermined and universal chaos impends o'er the mar- 
ried world ! (Applause, smiles, and even tears, in the court-room 
followed this fine burst of eloquence). Gentlemen, once a female 
reads these works, she rises therefrom by no means the same soft, 
gentle and ductile being that she was when she sat down. Watch 
her as she turns page after page! Now she starts and bites her 
lips; then waves her hand as if she felt herself to be queen reg- 
nant of the world. Anon she turns deathly pale as some subtle 
thought breaks in upon her excited soul; and again the 
red flush bathes her face in crimson glory, and, bound- 
ing to her feet, with compressed lips, eyes flashing liquid 
flame, she paces the floor with imperial tread, and beneath 
her breath, with bosom palpitating with some new and 
strange resolve, she exclaims, "The man is right! . we 
women ought to rule the world! and — I mean to do 
it!" Her demeanor has utterly changed, and she who erewhile 
was a meek and ductile woman, has become suddenly suffused 
with a new and lustrous beauty, flashing from her eyes, blooming 
in her cheek and blushing through her coral lips; her nature, 
wiiolly altered, she feels herself to be in very truth every inch a 
queen! (55) fully understanding all men, able to laugh alike at 
his honest effeorts to win her, and defy all his ways that are 
dark ! She now knows that of all lovers it may be truly said that 
his ways are ways of wariness and his walks are slantindicular. 
Perfectly confident in her new-fledged powers, she prides herself 
on ability to hedge and edge her path to victory over the wariest 
male heart on the globe ! for this author has taught her the scope, 
range, methods and rationale of that mysterious influence known 
as magnetism, more in woman than in man, and which in com- 
petent hands is a force against which no human heart or will can 
successfully contend or stand, provided the assaulted party is at 
first unaware of the fine attack ! 

What, then, ought we not to do to guard ourselves against 
this man, who studies the profundities of ontological science 
for the avowed purpose of finally arraying the whole vast host of 
women against the rule of their natural lords and masters in the 
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social order, and revolutionizing the world! (Murmurs of 
applause and dissent). 

What measure should be taken to effectually silence this 
preacher of a new crusade, who declares that society is essen- 
tially barbaric; that true civilization is yet to come; that every 
wife has the inborn right to say what shall and what shall not 
be, in all things pertaining to domestic life; that when this is 
the case heaven is close at hand; that the spirit of the universe 
is essentially feminine, and females therefore ought of right to 
rule; that no father ever yet sired a genius or child of talent; 
that the mothers alone gave all there is of good and great to the 
world; and that they, these Rosicrucians, are the true avant 
couriers of the good time coming! 

With marvellous address they whisper into a woman's ear. 
"Do not trouble, or unsex yourselves about ballots, voting and 
all that; but cultivate the special feminine graces of your sex, and 
you will speedily rule the land ! (56) All men may not believe 
in God, Christ, or Immortality, but every mother's son of them 
believes in woman ! You can never win real homage by putting 
on airs, but you can by acting always from the love-batteries 
of your soul!" 

Dear reader, pray remember this. Again, remember this: — 
Every man of sense and refinement admires a woman as a 
woman, and when she steps out of this character, a thousand 
things that in their appropriate sphere would be admired, become 
disgusting and offensive. The appropriate character of a woman 
demands delicacy of appearance and manners, refinement of 
sentiment, gentleness of speech, modesty in feeling and action, a 
shrinking from notoriety and public gaze, aversion to all that is 
coarse and rude, and an instinctive abhorrence of all that tends 
to indelicacy and impurity, either in principle or action. These 
are the traits which are always admired and often sought for in 
a woman. Act on that idea, and your cause is safe and sure. 
You can have it all your own way, if you will try ! These prin- 
ciples will subdue the most ferocious and brutal beast, miscalled 
"Husband," and by them a man may tame the fiercest vixen 
that ever bore the name of "Wife!" Thus he wins their confi- 
dence, converts them to his ideas, and their victory is won before 
the battle fairly begins. Says lie : — 

"Fair woman was made to bewitch, 



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A companion, wife, nurse, 
A blessing, a curse, 
A termagant, shrew, or something far worse — 
Fair woman was made to be which?" 
It is not hard to predict if his reasonings are just. 

He gains his points by descanting on woman's beauty, the 
laws and rules for its increase and most powerful display; gives 
recipes and items — the gathered treasures of all tongues and 
lands, and lays them at her feet, saying: — "Take, use, and reign 
queen forever!" and they follow his advice: "Be beautiful' I 
have shewn you how. Magnetically alluring and attractive! I 
have taught ycu. Waste not your sympathies, vitality or physical 
force ! I have pointed the means how you may make life's game 
your own in the briefest possible space of time." What's the 
result? Why, that all women far and near, losing sight of 
social duties, strive only to gain such an ascendancy in the world, 
that it will net be habitable by any high-toned, spirited man: for 
only effeminate human lollypops could or would endure such a 
state of affairs. 

One singular argument advanced by, not Mr. Randolph, 
but the regular free-lovers, is that the state of the general human 
health is such, that it requires magnetic changes; and the only 
correct method of inducing them is frequent change of magne- 
tism; in other words, shameless concubinage, and promiscuous 
libertinism — a doctrine so utterly abhorrent as to bring the blush 
of shame even on a demon's iron brow. 

To conclude, gentlemen, we ask a verdict against the pris- 
oner, net so much to punish him, as to warn others that society's 
laws are not to be ruthlessly tramped upon; nor doctrines per- 
mitted, whose effect must be to array the sexes in hostile combat. 
I have done! (Court adjourned). 

At ten o'clock next day the court was fairly packed, to listen 
to the argument of Mr. Selden Ecaumcnt, (57) the advocate of 
the ultra-liberal side of the issue, who rose and said : — 

Gentlemen, I am here not as counsel retained for Mr. Ran- 
dolph, or against him either; but for the purpose of disabusing 
your minds of the prejudice against what is called free-love. If 
the accused is convicted, then the days of free thought and 
expression are ended and our liberties pass under Star Chamber 



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rule. I am not aware that either Mr. Randolph or the believers 
in free-love ever regarded him as favoring that cause. (58) 
If there is anything favorable to it in his writings, I have not 
seen them, and if there were, I should certainly not denounce him 
for their utterance or expression; but with all my heart should 
say, God-speed ! You are right, nor can human justice or right- 
eous law condemn you ! The gates of hell cannot prevail against 
you, for you but give tongue to the eternal gospel of truth, dwell- 
ing in every man and woman's heart. That gospel is found in 
the words freedom, liberty, self-accountability — the inalienable 
right of self-defence and self-preservation; and so long as the 
human heart acknowledges that gospel, just so long has a man 
or woman a right to love or hate just as they please, with only 
God and their own souls to say them nay! (Great sensation). 
If this author has said one word in behalf of that liberty of 
thought denied to mankind by their self-appointed rulers and 
legislators, but which are guaranteed to every human soul by 
the Infinite Master of all when he spoke them into existence, 
then is Randolph fairly justified by the triple sanction of God, 
nature, and universal human instinct! 

If by his pen, tongue, or act, he has struck even one effective 
blow at the strongest and heaviest gyves that ever bound a 
human being — that of a hateful marriage — which fills more 
mad-houses, peoples more brothels, fills more jails, causes more 
crime, and stocks more grave-yards with prematurely dead, than 
any other one thing under the starry sky — then again I repeat, 
God bless him for the blow thus struck! (Wild excitement in 
court). If, as the learned prosecutor says, he has done this 
thing, and so effectually that conservatism stands aghast, then 
from my soul, and the souls of all true people, there goes up to 
God a loud vivat! and thanks for the brave, bold utterance! 
(Applause). 

I am not here to inquire if he be or be not a free-lover; but 
if he is, he has an undoubted, heaven-born right to be, and so 
has every other human being who breathes the air of heaven! 

If he is not a free-lover, theoretically or practically, he 
stands solitary and alone, amid the teeming myriads of earth — 
brute and human alike — for no love ever yet was confined to 
pairs, and never will be! If it is, why are so many brothels, 
right in the midst of church, supported by married men — and 



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members? Why are there so many convenient houses where 
high-toned dames pass pleasant hours with low-toned lovers? 
Do you want me to speak plainer? Shall I call names of parties, 
places, streets and numbers, in godly Boston too? Shall I point 
out bankers, merchants, deacons and right reverends, who go 
down to see the sights of Babylon, and stay there too? If so, 
I can prove what I say right on the spot! (Tremendous sensa- 
tion in the court — a turning of heads, wiping of faces, and 
dropping of veils!) 

We are told in Holy Writ that he who looketh upon a 
woman to lust after her has already committed adultery in his 
heart. I believe it, and, measured by that standard, how many 
men on earth are innocent ? You might pack them all in a ten- 
foot room! 

Do you suppose that either Randolph or the free-lovers 
favor such othings ? Do you think they seek to render earth and 
society a lazar-house? No, never! Let the principles of social 
freedom be well understood, and that moment every brothel in 
the world will be forever closed! Why? Because wrong mar- 
riages would be dissolved without disgrace, and righteous take 
their places; and when rightly married, hell is forever banished 
from the household, and purity and heaven begin their sweet 
and melodious reign ! 

Of all the people on the globe who from their souls depre- 
cate prostitution, and earnestly try to uproot its causes, free- 
lovers are emphatically the people. If the prisoner at the bar 
has never been a practical, mental or theoretical free-lover, forth- 
with deck him out in linen and purple, put chains of gold about 
his neck, and proclaim him the grandest marvel of all the cen- 
turies, for he stands alone, the only human male on earth who 
has not in desire, thought or deed been what the learned prose- 
cutor — in court — is so utterly horrified by — but whether that 
horror will not grow smaller by degrees, and beautifully less, 
after he leaves the court, and finds himself the cynosure of a pair 
of ripe lips and sparkling eyes — is not much of a question to me, 
and I doubt even to the learned gentleman himself? (Smiles and 
That's so!" and "Thrue for you's!" all over the room). We, 
just as Randolph says, "live in barbaric times, and under bar- 
baric law." What else can it be called which crushes thinkers, 
and builds gibbets ? which throttles virtue and encourages broth- 



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els? which sells "justice" to the highest bidder, and liberates 
murderers — who can pay? which tolerates concubinage, and 
liaisons, yet makes war on real marriage. What else than bar- 
barism is it which holds a woman to a living death and hell in a 
mockery of marriage, yet thrives on petty crimes extorted from 
common prostitutes? What is that but barbarism which holds 
that a woman, by the force of a few mumbled words, has sold 
herself, soul and body, and has, to all intents and purposes, 
become the property of him who buys her, and who may turn 
out to be a man, but as like as not a coarse brute beast in human 
form? Yet she must remain his bond-slave and creature of his 
lusts, turn harlot or die, in order to free herself from the dread- 
ful thraldom! 

These witnesses have feeling, conscience, character, and he 
who affirms they have not lies in his throat, and is on par with 
the cabal of people, who, failing to blackmail P. B. Randolph, 
thrust him through perjury to keep company for two days with 
people like themselves, behind the bars of a prison, but out of 
which he comes, to pass unscathed through two more ordeals, 
and then triumph as few men ever triumphed in this broad land. 
Mr. Randolph is charged with being the champion of free-lovers, 
yet a score of people positively swear that he is not and that they 
regard him as the hero on the other side! Now when doctors 
and experts disagree, who shall decide? For myself I wish he 
would in sober earnest bring his energies and powers to the free- 
love cause; and I deeply regret at being compelled to count him 
out of the advocates of that cause, still having hopes that he may 
yet get his wings of soul plumed for a flight to where the truths 
of freedom now nidulate. He has, however, enunciated one of 
the most sterling truths ever spoken by human lips, and this is 
it: "Alas! as the world stands today most people are married 
to other people's wives and husbands!" A truer, real gospel was 
never uttered — or a sadder one! But who comprehends it? — 
or its utterer? 

It is a great defect of your "practical" people, that they can 
never understand that the genius, the poet, the enthusiast and 
dreamer, such as this robbed, swindled, almost ruined prisoner, 
have their places in the economy of things, and supply the ma- 
terial upon which these people of common sense work. Beethoven, 
King of Music, begged his bread of Himmel; Poe dies neglected, 



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starved, frozen; Randolph lives in a garret, and human jackals 
thrive upon the productions of their labor and toil. Such is life ; 
so goes the world! Two of them have costly monuments, and 
their works are bound in gold and crimson; the third one today 
stands pleading not only for justice, but for bread ; for this toiler 
of thirty years has never realized from all his books enough to 
keep him in good food a single month ! For this man has put all 
he has received into copyrights and stereotype plates, and today 
is nearly ten thousand dollars behindhand, as to my certain 
knowledge he has suffered to that extent since these persecutions 
began, and unless he gets help soon, plates, copyrights, and all 
will pass into the hands of speculators, who will make millions 
from them while himself starves to death ! 

True, during twenty-two years he, from all his books, labor, 
travels and lectures, succeeded in putting by eight hundred dol- 
lars, hoping to make it a thousand before he died, to leave his 
invalid daughter; but in an evil hour that too was swept away 
from him by the ungenerous conduct of the last pair of victim- 
izes, just on the heels of another operation of like nature by 
the Ohio worthies. (59) Now if on the heels of all that you 
convict this man, then justice may as well give up her office, 
and rapine rule the land! (At this three ladies and two gentle- 
men stepped over to the dejected prisoner, and put five dollars 
in his hand!) 

If you want to raise friends for a cause or a man, just 
persecute it or him, and your work is done. Convict this man, 
and you put the world on its mettle to avenge him; and I am 
greatly mistaken if the American people, all over, and every- 
where, from the moment the news of this persecution reaches 
them, do not buy of Mr. Randolph his books by the score of 
thousands! In fact I know they will do it, and for a double 
reason, first to show their feeling for a down-trodden man of 
talent; and secondly, for the sake of reading the extraordinary 
emanations from his brain and pen, as many actually and at 
this moment are doing, and tens of thousands more will before 
the years roll away to oblivion. (Reader, remember this — 
there's meaning in it. — Editor.) 

Marriage in these days, is understood to mean the absolute 
and undeniable proprietorship of a wife by the husband, and 
she is expected to defer to him in all things whatever, and when 



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she acts of herself to do so only by the consent and sufferance 
of her supreme lord and master. 

That ownership, as the representative of freedom, I dis- 
pute and deny. I contest the authority and impugn the honor 
and manhood of all who sustain it, nor will I ever admit its truth 
and force, its right or justice, until every man shall produce a bill 
of sale from almighty God Himself to prove his claim and sub- 
stantiate his ownership of any woman who breathes the air, no 
matter what forms have been gone through with to give color to 
the swindle and the farce — but swindles and farces that end in 
tragedy and horror, ineffable and supreme ! ( Immense astonish- 
ment and profound interest). 

I stand here, not the hireling of interest, nor the minion of 
unjust law, but the voluntary champion of an abused cause, 
and as such I defy the world — Randolph included (60) — that 
true free-love ever debauched a single human being, or led an 
innocent woman astray ! But I shall be told that so-called free- 
lovers have been, and are, guilty of these wrongs. To this I 
rejoin: Paste is not diamond! and he or she who is yet under 
the reign of the lower passions have a long hill of development 
to wearily climb before they are fit to assume the title of free- 
lover, or associate on equal terms with their born and cultured 
superiors! Love, forsooth! why, he or she who is so juvenile 
in intellect, so mean in soul, and so very low in the human scale 
as to confound love with lust, or pure, unsullied affection with 
the modern "passional attractionalism," had better retire to the 
jungles, where they properly belong — for look you, he or she 
who cannot love without making beasts of themselves are but 
the imperfect shadows of the substantial things theirs faces and 
forms represent. Faugh! they are obscene birds, hawks and 
buzzards, who gather at the edges of the battle to sniff at valiant 
blood and thrive upon its carrion! — not men and women, but 
adolescent children — the "what-is-its" in crinoline and broad- 
cloth, neither of which they honor, and both of which they dis- 
grace! (This burst of elopuence created a tumult which the 
gavel of the clerk found it impossible to wholly suppress. He 
went on: — ) I stand here to defend the honor of those men and 
women, who, admitting themselves believers in social freedom, 
yet have been badgered and insulted as if they had no feelings, 
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of New York or Boston, than in which no greater sinks of 
corruption ever festered on the earth — eyesores and dens of per- 
dition, giving Sodom the go-by — never wholly suppressed, but 
allowed to flourish for the sake of rent, taxes and votes! — dens 
of infamy whose stench offends the nostrils of the devil, if there 
be one, but which no virtuous officials see fit to clean out and 
extirpate — these selfsame identical officials who permit abortion- 
ists to publicly announce their dreadful trade in the public 
prints, and wink at hoary old sinners, who through "personals," 
advertise for new victims, the deserted wife or forlorn girl, 
cheated out of her wages by scoundrels, sewing masters, forced 
to accept the infamy or die — "personals," too, wherein shame- 
less professional harlots advertise for new victims — and get 
them, too! O virtue-compelling officials of the law! Civiliza- 
tion? bah! hell itself would blush at comparison of conditions. 
(Applause, in which even the judges joined). What free-lover 
on God's green earth has it in his mind or heart to tolerate or 
wink at enormities like these ? Where's Christianity ? 

What do the rabble know of genius foreign to its uncultured 
tastes? What do such persecutors as old hoary Andy Bay, or 
the thick head, foxy, rattle-snakish Frenches, know really of 
him whom they ground unto the dust? What do the mob, who 
never think, and seldom feel, realize of the life — a life of keen 
intensities, like this poor victim, who has brains enough to scale 
the heavens, yet not enough to see through the wiles of scheming 
foresworn human adder; the plots of a wandering counterfeit- 
money-passing adventuress, or her contemptible self-seeking 
paramour — a fellow who has the heart to send ships to sea and 
wreck them, and openly boast of his villany. They, such lecher- 
ous dead-beats, can know nothing of a life like his, between 
which and their own a shoreless ocean rolls ! Who of the thou- 
sands, who upon mere hearsay slandered this patient thinker, 
because it was the fashion to underrate and affect to despise 
him ; what do they know of the fearful price he has had to pay in 
order to attain his awful powers of mental flight — the magni- 
ficent stretch of his soul's pure vision? Who of them all, even 
with bright fancy keen set, can drink in the flood of glory, pic- 
tured of the far heavens in his "Disembodiment of Man?" 

What do the money-seeking sons of earth really know of 
this lone student of the deepest lore of all time? — this chief 



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mystic of them all; this thorn-crowned king of the Rosicrucians; 
this philosopher, whom they sillily think so careless of his fame 
and mental dignity, as to stoop low enough to indite things 
detrimental to the morals of mankind — him whose sole aim in 
life has been to purify and elevate the species! Poor toiler! 
Without friends capable of assisting him financially; struggling 
all alone, yet snarled at by thousands of human curs, envious of 
his talent, jealous of his fame; a man who has traversed the 
world, a comet of intellect, sent across the human sky to tell 
the mighty story of God's new and better way — an unfriended 
being, who has alone mastered more science and philosophy than 
would, spread out, suffice for ten score college professors, and 
have enough left over to keep them busy for a century ! Probably, 
like us all, he has his personal faults and shortcomings. They 
complain of his audacities of statement and reasoning and mar- 
vel at the brilliant voluptuousness of his descriptions, as if that 
were a fault. Every line he has written has been, as Taine says 
of the contemplar genius Alfred de Musset, "torn from his 
vitals," produced by an absolute expenditure of life, and are not 
the fruits of mere feeling or fancy. 

Randolph has for twenty years been known as the "Man 
with two souls!" — the one soft, gentle, humane, simple as a child, 
trusting, credulous, wholly blind to financial advantages and 
economies; the other imperial, imperious, vast, titanic, space- 
piercing, heaven-storming, and claiming kindred with the gods! 
Uneven, unbalanced, erratic, independent, yet craving sympathy, 
this double-souled being has steadily fought the surviving spirit 
of New England's overstrained righteousness and blue-law pro- 
priety — when it was deemed a sin to smile and an indictable 
offence for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday; when an indi- 
vidual's religion and general character were measured by the 
length of his prayers; when honest Quakers were burned at the 
stake, and poor, frail women hung as witches; when congrega- 
tions assembled in churches like the most woe-begone mutes at 
a funeral, and long faces were considered as the only livery in 
which to serve the Lord. Habitual dram-drinking was one of 
the fruits of that regime, because that could be indulged in 
secrecy, and pursued to a certain extent in defiance of the cen- 
sors, and self-righteous leaders. Can any one look back upon 
those Puritanic da} r s without a mental shudder at the unmistak- 



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able hypocrisy that reigned triumphant? Do not let us mistake 
the lesson in our own history, and the moral of events and occur- 
rences so near to cur own times as to have left indelible marks 
and warning all about us. Is there any one among us today who 
believes that such mad zeal and bigotry were ever a grateful 
tribute to the Father of our race? 

That spirit he has fought, and wholly on woman's side. He 
has taken her part, arming her in proof against deception, and 
yet few men have suffered as has he from and by deceptions 
practised on him by women. No seer can see for himself! It is 
a law inherent in the very soul of seership, that he or she who 
can safely and triumphantly lead a world, are actually blind 
when themselves are the object to be seen for. It was so with 
Gautama Buclha, who could not see the lurking poison in the 
dish of pork before him; and Appolonius, betrayed to death; 
and Cagliostro, another Samson, like the man of Israel; nor 
Plato; and Fulvius; or Agrippa; and of Him whom they cruci- 
fied, and in short, of them all, from the world's dawn to this 
hour. 

This last of the true seers is no better able to see through the 
plots and rascalities hatched against his peace and pocket, than 
any one else, yet turning his soul's gaze from himself to others, 
the grand sweep of his inner sight has astounded living thou- 
sands ! 

Bayed as free-lovers and this man has been, hounded down 
to the bitter death by bigots, knaves, and narrow-souled hypo- 
crites the "ism" will yet prevail, and the man, the thinker, have 
new lustre added to his name, by the abuse of those whose names 
fifty years hence will be in resurrectionless graves. This man 
is an example of perseverance seldom surpassed, and has 
achieved everything he aimed at, which his foes said he could not. 
They said he could not write a book, and he produced a dozen 
of the best in any language used on the globe; and although at 
this moment poor to penury, living for three years, and there 
still — when free to do so — in a garrett, yet his power is felt the 
wide world over, and he is today a leading spirit of the age, in 
spite of detraction, slander, sneers, scandal, and wilful purposed 
neglect. But again I say his triumph is at hand, for the great 
Public, and Women everywhere will hasten to buy his books, 
net through others, who reap the profit, but directly from him- 



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self — if from a jail, then from a jail; but I believe, gentlemen of 
the jury, that your verdict will restore this man to his garret, 
his pens and ink, and to the great work for loving hearts it is his 
task on earth to do! 

But to the other aspects of the case before us. The men and 
women who have here declared their belief in social freedom 
must not, shall not, be confounded with either prostitutes or their 
patrons! Free love is one thing, sensual license quite another. 
They are antagonistic, antipodal, and no more alike than most 
lawyers and detectives are like honest, honorable or principled 
gentlemen! True, a few of the latter are among them, but one 
swallow does not make a spring. 

In free love these women and men believe; in license they 
do not. For free love the people have a world of anathemas; 
in sensual freedom the people have no public faith, but in its 
practice, when night and darkness palls the world, the crowd to 
be found in places where courtesans reign queens, and the garish 
lights are burning, would form armies large enough to confront 
the combined military of the entire globe ! Consistency, thou art, 
indeed, a jewel ! 

Llypocrisy rules the hour and the man, for in the face of day 
thousands, ay, millions, there be, who vehemently denounce all 
passional license on the highways, who, three hours afterwards, 
may be found disgracing their manhood and dishonoring their 
mother's sex, in cosy little parlors, just around the corner, to the 
tune of clinking wine-glasses, and the inspiring radiance of a 
painted wanton's charms! And these self-same hypocritical 
debauchees, whose name is legion, have the unblushing effron- 
tery to class an honorable woman, sick of social tyranny, half 
worn out by domestic brutalisms, who, seeking escape from hell 
and taking refuge by the wayside, dares tell the world she owns 
herself, with the painted lemans of the thoroughfares, whose 
paint and glitter, and flashy jewels, and the rum that crazes 
their brains and rushes the poor things at break-neck speed 
toward the steep-down gulfs of misery and suicide, were bought 
and paid for with the crisp bank notes doled to them in exchange 
for double infamy by these self-same doubly dyed hypocrites 
and unco-godly wretches. 

Let one of these denouncers of free-lovers stand up, if he 
dares, and name one single lady advocate of social freedom who 



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has ever disgraced her womanhood, or sold herself for baubles, 
clinking gold, or greenbacks ! I defy the world to point out one! On 
the other hand, I defy the same pack to point me out one single 
man, who is a genuine advocate of the same doctrine, who thinks 
more of his senses than he does of his soul; or whom they can 
ever find haunting the sinks of sin after nightfall, to avail him- 
self of the dreadful necessity of some poor child, driven to vice 
for want of bread and shelter, and kindness, and fairly paid 
labor. "Alas for the rarity of Christian charity — under the 
sun." Why, it stinks even in the nostrils of a savage from the 
isles or Booraboola gha ! 

Never, never will you find male or female social freedom- 
ists, or Randolph's agapists, degrading God's image, either in 
themselves or others. (Applause and sensation). 

Free-lovers are not for sale, no matter how high these de- 
nouncers may bid, who usually buy in the open markets, else, 
sneak-thief-like, undermine a man's home and seduce his wife 
and daughters in the guise of friendship! they do these things, 
at which free-lovers stand aghast with ineffable horror — do 
them, under the spur of the most infernal passion that ever 
thrilled a devil's veins, and plead, when caught, "Couldn't help 
it!" Meantime, their own wives, wearisome, sad, are pining, 
not at home, but in an infernal mockery of one, their lords 
abroad, sowing a few wild oats, till disease or death sews them 
up in turn. They do these things because it is one of the inalien- 
able rights of man, forsooth, to do as he pleases, provided he is 
not caught at it, or hurried off on the toe of a boot, or persuaded 
to desist by the solid logic of a pistol-ball. But if one of these 
injured and neglected wives so far agrees with them as to claim 
identical rights, then, oh then, there's trouble in the camp, right 
away. 

"Mister Injun," said the hunter, "We'll divide our game 
fair, and you shall have the crow, and I'll have the turkey, or I'll 
have the turkey, and you shall have the crow." It was all very 
fair, no doubt, but somehow the Indian couldn't see it for, "You 
never talk turkey to me one time!" 

Just so in the case before us, for just let a woman assume 
the same privileges, they, the lords, take, without asking, the 
lords, with hands uplifted in holy horror find out what's in a 
name, and that gander sauce is bad for the goose! . . . AH 



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that we ask is perfect equality between the sexes. If mere sen- 
sualism was our aim, we had that and its conditions already 
made to our hands by "civilization!" All that social reformers 
ask is, that whatever a man may do, that also may a woman, and 
under the self-same freedom, pains, penalties and non-notice — 
only that and nothing more. (Applause). 

What man is there on the earth, intelligent, sound, healthy 
in mind and body, who will yield the right and fact of self- 
ownership to another? Who and where is he, who, sane and 
sound, yet being jailed and ill-used will not escape if he can, 
with or without the leave or license of his jailer ? 

Is that a fair and valid contract where all the advantages 
accrue to one party, and the pains and losses fall to the lot of 
the other, on the heads I win, tails you lose, principle? Such, 
however, is the scope, tenure and result of modern "civilized" 
marriage, and the loser, nine times in ten, is the woman. If a 
man in business is thus taken in, the sense of equity in all men 
frees him from the bond and relieves him of its unjust obliga- 
tions. But if the general verdict is just in matters of dollars, it 
is ten times stronger in an affair involving health, happiness, 
life and death. This justice we claim for woman as for man, and 
intend to make the world acknowledge it, and ring the bells until 
it does. 

No human law can justly compel a man to run risks of life 
and health, but, declaring that self-preservation is the para- 
mount law, bids him defy all thralls and escape if he can ! Well, 
who shall compel a woman to remain where she runs risks worse 
than death, because they involve her and the children she is 
likely to mother in hatred, not love; loathing, not tenderness. 
Do you see the logic ? 

P. B. Randolph in "Casca Llanna" says: "The world can 
never be rebuilt until it becomes impossible for Mr. Boarland 
to swindle Miss Green into wedlock under the impression that 
he's a man, and that what he offers is love, when in fact he's no 
such thing, and his wares are counterfeit. When the graves 
give up their dead, and the murdered are duly classified, there 
will be a frightful host of Misses Green clamoring for justice at 
the bar of God." Is this free-love?" No! Well it is just what 
free-lovers say, believe, and try to prevent, by reforming the 
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A woman recently said, "That marriage as it ordinarily 
exists in society was a delusion of an unenlightened age, fraught 
with the gravest evils, and that woman, free to love, free to dis- 
own her wedded husband for cause, and free to turn the tables 
upon man when he went after strange women, was a millennium 
in the world's history, and that she called upon Divinity itself to 
witness that she dedicated her life to assist in bringing about its 
actual and living consummation," and she was very close to the 
right. It is affirmed that "Life is a desert" — marriage and 
mirage are the same thing, only differently spelt, and you all 
believe, because you know it to be true, but ought not to be. It is 
said, and truly, that a young man generally gives a lock of his 
hair to his sweetheart before he marries her. After marriage 
she generally helps herself. Is this what the institution ought 
to be? 

The rich landscapes and meadows, seen in the distance by 
the young bride, turn out to be arid wastes, with bitter waters and 
acrid fruits in a very little time, nine times in every ten, and can 
you wonder at the prevalence of crime among the living fruits 
of such parents ? 

Now because a woman went into the mirage of marriage- 
land, thus impressed, is there any reason, earthly or divine, why 
she should forever stay there? especially when she clearly sees 
her way out ? when she realizes her right to go, and has the same 
will to leave that she had to enter ? 

If on her journey through that scoriae wilderness, she 
reaches a hill-top whence she can see the smiling happy valleys 
outspread at her feet, who shall forbid her going down there to 
pluck its ripe fruit and bathe her in its limpid waters? Cer- 
tainly no man has such a right, nor can any human enactment 
confer it upon him, or prohibit her free acticn, save by brute 
force, and we are not debating that side of the question. No 
ecclesiastical or judicial power on earth can confer any such 
right, a right which nature disavows, and Eternal God disclaims 
— for He has said, avoid disaster ! seek happiness ! and those two 
lines are engraved by His fingers on every human heart and 
consciousness. 

Do not run wild with the notion that the advocates of 
social freedom are barbarians, and sensual malcontents, who see 
no good ahead save in unbridled passionalism, for if you do 



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you err, because freedom and license, though sometimes con- 
founded are really anthithetical and opposites, and in nowise 
related to each other; for freedom means order, license means 
anarchy and chaos! After all it is not the savage nor the bar- 
barian over whom lust reigns with iron rod and omnipotent 
sway; but is is your reedy-souled, casuatic civilizee, whose dream 
by night, and thoughts by day are on the twin damnations of 
the world — dollars and lust! The true free-lover dwells in 
life's parlors — his or her heart, soul, brain; while passion is in 
the kitchen, where it belongs! The civilizee reverses all this, 
and his parlor worship is — faugh ! let me not pollute my lips by 
naming it. When one of the ilk beholds a beautiful female, his 
thoughts run upon dishonorable lines. When a free-lover be- 
holds such, he adores the Creator, and sees in her another form 
of His infinite beauty and great glory, to adore whom from his 
very soul is a rapture indeed, because it is manly, noble and, 
pure! When the civilizee beholds her, the chances are, that he 
would compass heaven and earth to debase her, and if he had 
the chance would not resist it! Thus, gentlemen, you see the 
difference between this and that, a lie and the truth, free love 
and free lust — in a word, between a true man and an educated 
gorilla. 

These men, these conspirators, not only against Randolph, 
but against literature itself, allege that his books are not sound 
in morals. If this be so, then let every medical work in the world 
be suppressed. Nay, if he is to be condemned, then I impeach 
every minister in America, for to my certain knowledge every 
one of them owns, reads and circulates a certain volume contain- 
ing oaths, curses and obscenities of the most abominable char- 
acter, in plain English too, without disguise or circumlocution, 
and with a detail of statement highly delightful to morbid minds. 
This book they buy, sell, give away, lend and borrow — actually 
doat on, reading it in secret, and take special pains to point cut 
to innocent young girls, and discontented married women, its 
most unctuous, meaning and significant passages. "What book?" 
Why, the Bible, a volume abounding in glorious things, but 
sadly marred by accounts and allusions too filthily low for even 
a common brothel! Exclude these, and a great good thing will 
have been done. The Bible's purpose is the best good to us all, 
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One witness against him said: "After reading 'Love,' 
'Casca Llanna' and 'Seership," about the seven magnetic laws, 
I think it an easy matter to get the better of any man I choose 
to try for — husband, lover or utter stranger; and I think I'm 
able, after studying them, to wind any man around my little 
finger, just as easily as I can wink my eyes. What's to hinder ? 
Don't he tell how it's done? I've tried them, and know just 
what I'm talking about." 

Another witness: "I got hold o' them books, especially 
'Seership,' and I think it's mighty easy work to make any wo- 
man believe the moon's made o' green cheese — fact is, most of 
'em do any way! But them there rules is high, you bet!" The 
defence immediately produced a notice cut from the columns of 
one of the first religious journals of the land, and which was 
kept standing therein for months — a notice of one of these iden- 
tical volumes. Here it is : — 

"The statements contained in this book are indeed startling. 
Its exposures of simulated and morbid love and the monster 
crime of this age are withering, and will go far toward changing 
the current of the thought of the century upon matters affec- 
tional, social and domestic, for a firm, vigorous health pervades 
every page. Its appeals for woman, and consolements of wound- 
ed spirits, are tender, pathetic and touchingly true and eloquent. 
Its advice to women, so often the victims of misplaced confidence 
and affection, is sound to the core, and withal it gives direct, 
explicit and valuable counsel concerning the great chemi co- 
magnetic laws of love, as to render it on that branch of the sub- 
ject undoubtedly the book of the century. Especially is this 
true of what it says concerning the true method of regaining a 
lost, wondering or perishing affection. But no brief notice can 
do justice to this most remarkable book on human love ever 
issued from the American press." 

I need not call your attention to the character of the two 
first witnesses, nor ask you to weigh their testimony against that 
of the last one, for this you have already done, have seen the 
animus of the couple, but have not asked what price they were 
paid for their testimony! 

Any man can torture the Bible till it apparently substan- 
tiates any conceivable absurdity; and just so can this man's 
books be tortured against their just intent, which is to arm men 



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against the wiles of women like the first witness; and to teach 
females how to foil the schemes of such persons as the male wit- 
ness, they, as you see, being a pair who hunt in couples. In 
conclusion, I affirm that Mr. Randolp's arrest, imprisonment and 
loss of all he had on earth, was brought about by cupidity, 
malice, personal spleen, in part, and because he found out too 
many dangerous secrets of a branded villain and his infamous 
paramour. This malice and revenge it is no part of a judge or 
jury to permit, much less assist in. I confidently look for his 
acquittal, and now leave the case with you." 

Applause greeted the eloquent pleader as he sat down. It 
being late, the court adjourned till the next day, on which the 
defendant was to make his plea. It seemed almost impossible 
to imagine how any man could, placed between two such able 
forces, manage to escape conviction on the one hand, or meet 
the arguments of the other. However, Randolph was considered 
equal to the task, and so great was the desire to hear him, that 
standing places even could have been sold at heavy rates. 

At ten o'clock the court convened, the room being literally 

packed with a surging mass of people, many of whom were 

ladies. The court having been called to order the defendant 

rose, and amid profound silence began his defence: — 
A ft * • « * 

RANDOLPH'S SPEECH TO THE JURY AND COURT 

May it please the honorable court and jury .' I stand here 
today in a singular attitude, between two fires. I am accused 
of writing and scattering broadcast over the country works calcu- 
lated to overturn society and completely change the existing code 
of ethics; and I am called on to defend myself from that chnrge, 
so far as actual free-love is concerned, and that too in face of the 
fact that while I certainly am not aware that any arguments in 
favor of that doctrine are in any of my works; yet the advocates 
of it claim that I have written stronger for woman's emancipa- 
tion than almost any other author of the times we live in. Here 
then is a dilemma of extraordinary character at the start. If, 
gentlemen, you should ask the question: Mr. Randolph, what 
do you know of free-lovers and free-love? I should answer, I 
have seen so few honest ones that I can hardly answer; while 
as to the doctrine itself, it may have its good points, but I am not 
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the extent claimed by its votaries. (61) I do not altogether be- 
lieve in human independence or in individual sovereignty; why, 
will be seen before I finish my plea, not only for myself and 
books, but for every honest man and virtuous woman living. And 
right here let me say that in spite of the eloquent gentleman's 
plea for free love, there is a fearful sophism passing for sound 
logic in it, which is compounded of anything but justice, truth, 
or right. Whatever may be the practice of free-lovers, certain 
it is that the corner-stone of their edifice is that any man 01 
woman is at perfect liberty to ask, receive, and grant, favors 
from or to any one whom fancy may take to, wholly unquestioned 
by ane one. In a state of society possibly existing in Heaven, 
such a doctrine might be understood, and no harm come of it, 
but on the earth today — which, as the gentleman says, is bar- 
baric, and the vast mass but little better than savages at heart — 
that doctrine don't work well, for where one person would under- 
stand and see it from the heavenly point of view, fifty millions 
would see, and use it, from a wholly earthly one! Now a rela- 
tion subsisting between two persons can not be love if it allows 
each the unlimited passional liberty which is the soul and essence 
of the free-love dogma! 

We have just listened to the most splendid instance of 
special pleading ever heard at the bar of any court; but, glitter- 
ing as it was, eloquent as all concede it to have been, it will not 
hold water; is altogether too thin, weak and of no real weight 
to stand the test of being picked to pieces, as I intend to do right 
here and now. 

Free-love, disguise it as you may, means sensual license, 
no more, no less; and wherever its doctrines prevail there will 
you find either a worn-out debauchee, a freedom-shrieking wo- 
man of faded charms, sharp voice, rapid tongue, overplus of 
brain, paucity of soul, little passion and less love; or brainy 
men, actually heartless unemotive, spasmodically lecherous, bent 
on world-saving, themselves wholly lost, vapid, not worth tying 
to, unreliable, strangers to generous manhood or manly feeling, 
devoted to an ism; people of a clique or ring, loud-mouthed, 
sour-sculed brawlers for liberty to infract every social and 
moral lav/, bitter propagandists, unreasoning zealots, criers down 
of "bigotry," themselves the most ultra and one-sided bigots who 
breathe — usurpers of divine right, claiming the right to demoral- 



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ize the world, yet denying that of any man to kick them down- 
stairs for poisoning the mind of his wife or daughters I (Unmis- 
takable sensation among audience, court and jury). 

I have seen the practical working of free-love, but never saw 
a man among them who stuck to his text of "Divine love" five 
minutes after he had a chance to tempt an honest wife to her 
infamy and ruin ! Nay, I brand their leader as guilty of crimes 
too foul for naming; and I know of two girls — sisters, pure as 
spotless snow when that fiend encountered them first, and whom 
he not only ruined and debased, but made them ministers of a 
crime gainst which death by stone and fire was denounced by 
Moses, and ought to be visited upon the wretch today ! Dare the 
villain deny this ? If so, I, with his victims, will prove it to his 
teeth before the criminal courts, and in presence of the world! 
(Immense emotion, as the orator warmed to his work). Again, 
let any man or woman read the astounding exposure of a great 
free-loveist recorded on pages 285-6, of "Casca Llanna," and if 
that does not settle the question forever, nothing on earth will. 
Only think of an act like that — she so artless, he so — but I have 
no term strong enough to apply to that "Great Leader." 

There may be honest free-lovers, but I never yet met one, 
unless, as I believe, the honorable counsellor who preceded me 
is such, but he is the exception which proves the rule, and I no 
more believe that man capable of rape or seduction than I do 
that I am capable of descending to the infamous level of those 
by whom I have just been robbed on the right hand and impris- 
oned, and the lower level of the amiable couple who finished by 
robbing and swindling me on the left, and my child ! 

Without any other than that exception, all the free-lovers I 
have ever met were about equally divided; one-half being nar- 
row-headed, one-sided, long-haired, and longer eared, morbid, 
disappointed fanatics; the other half rogues, libertines and har- 
lots by nature and choice, rather than the force of circumstances ! 
Gentlemen of the jury, these people claim the right to ignore and 
trample upon the marriage laws, which laws are the safeguards 
mankind have erected around the social state to protect itself 
from the incursions and raids of disorganizing social banditti, 
such as follow the lead of these free-love leaders. But I claim 
that no man has a right to poison either the bodies, minds or 
morals of any member of the body, social or politic; and I dis- 



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pute and denounce the so-called "Right" of any man to overstep 
the barriers of decency which men have erected between civiliza- 
tion and savagery or worse. No man, no woman on earth has, 
or can have, the right to openly proclaim doctrines subversive of 
Christian morality, unless he does so outside of and beyond its 
limits ; but so long as he or she remains in a moral and civilized 
community, just so long are they bound to obey its rules and 
laws. 

What man or woman on earth has the right to set an 
example before our children whose direct effect shall be their 
demoralizing and contamination, utter, total and complete? No 
sane man dare claim such a right. Free-lovers do claim it, and 
the inevitable, logical sequence is that they are either lunatics, 
villains or fools! one of the three, for there is, there can be no 
other conclusion. (Applause). 

Limited liberty is the root of civilization. The sovereignty 
of the individual begins and ends within himself. He has no 
right to intrude beyond the limits of his own sphere, nor to do 
what is offensive to all the moral sense of the world, even if he 
honestly believes himself to be right. A midnight thief is 
caught, not liberated, but made to pay the penalty of his crime; 
but a million such thieves in a lifetime can never do the harm 
to the human race, done by a single woman who stands before a 
public audience and claims as a divine and human right that of 
being a public leman, and brawls her obscene stuff into the ears 
of old and young alike, sending the girl forth from the hall with 
the fixed idea that concubinage is no crime ; and the young fellow 
out upon the streets fortified in the belief that seduction is 
justifiable, no matter who the victim may be. That's what 
conies and forever must come, from free-love teachings! no 
matter what may be the thought or intentions of here and there 
a high-minded soul among them, such must be the result upon 
the masses of the world today. Men and women dissatisfied 
with their conditions will gladly avail themselves of any subter- 
fuge or sophism which temporarily blinds them and hides them- 
selves from themselves, to "go in for a good time and a fig for 
the consequences!" But the "consequences" are sure to follow, 
the least of which is loss of self-respect, and the certain, if 
disguised, contempt of every one else, not omitting their own 
fellow "reformers." The true music of outraged justice will be 



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heard, and there's trouble in their hearts when the band begins 
to play! (Applause). Free-lovers are such because their emo- 
tional, physical and moral natures are thoroughly diseased, and 
a person in such a state is dangerous in every sense, and in no 
case trustable. 

I have been asked in this court if I am, or ever have been, 
a free-loveite. To this I give an honest answer: I know what 
wild oats are, and in my early days sowed a few; because when 
a young man, like all juveniles, I loved all wearers of crinoline — 
or rather, coffee bags — which were then in vogue. Today, when 
half a century almost lies between me and my natal morn, and 
but few years at most divides me from the upper flight, I love 
them still, but not as then; and at no period have I believed that 
doctrine sound and good. 

Twenty years have I practiced medicine, my specialty nerv- 
cus disorders of both sexes, my experience very marked and 
ample; but the result is that I do not believe, but know, that 
promiscuity in the social relation is the direct road to physical, 
mental and moral impotentia, resulting in insanity, early death 
and ruin. (62) True, it is an exciting game of life play, but it 
always ends against the player, whether man or woman. Now, 
what else is free-love but this very thing? Nothing! Mind, I 
do not assert that there are no honest people who believe the 
doctrine, whether they practise it or not; I only say / have not 
seen them; while there may be such, it is certain that there are 
hosts who use the term as a cloak and shield to cover up their 
shame, while revelling in the most debasing of all vices. This 
class belongs to the second half of the ism. They are but liber- 
tines and cyprians out on their travels up and down the world — 
social toadstools, fungi, hanging on to the skirts of social phil- 
osophy, a disgrace alike to themselves, the age, and civilization ! 
These constitute the great army of the modern "ists," but the 
lesser body, though possibly earnest and honest, are wrong. A 
maniac may earnestly and honestly believe himself inspired by 
the arch-seraphim, and he be willing to die for his opinions, 
yet is a maniac still, nevertheless. In twenty years I have seen 
as many thousands of free-lovers and "passional attractionists," 
but have yet to see the first woman made happy by or through 
either, if she practised the doctrines or not, nor have I ever seen 



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one made joyous by the knowledge that her husband was sustain- 
ing such relations beyond his own homeside. 

On the contrary, I have never failed to see quite as much, 
and even more bitter jealousy within the lines of the free-love 
camp as outside of it. Now, if the doctrine be true, and its 
practice right, "Why is this thus?" The fact is that the doctrine 
really is: — 

"Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye, 
And turns to ashes on the lips." 

You will notice one peculiar circumstance. No young 
woman is a free-lover until after she has swamped her morals 
under the teachings of some old sinner; and after that, her prac- 
tice of the doctrine veers with the current of currency. 

The older women who take to it are those whose cheeks 
need plumpers, busts need cotton-aids and palpitators, lips want 
coraline, and face, lily white and rouge; women lost to the true 
grace and dignity of womanhood, and whose souls invariably 
turn toward him whose veins bound with animal life, and pockets 
are plethoric of greenbacks and gold. A poor free-lover stands 
no chance whatever! In such they never discover an affinity. 

On the other hand, the he free-lover never discovers his 
heart's best feelings, touched by the charms of Madame of thirty- 
five or forty; but the scales drop quickly from his eyes, and his 
bump of affinity-discovery becomes suddenly developed when a 
buxom damsel, with lithe form and tripping gait, crosses his 
path, and then, ah! then, he sighs and ogles and talks lofty 
transcendentalisms, as he begins to wave his infernal web about 
her — poor, unsuspecting, giddy fly; and all the while he drones 
his damned music in her ear, until, completely immersed, she 
becomes mesmerically infatuated, and wakes up some fine morn- 
ing to find herself in the pestilent arms of a human ghoul, an 
infamous scoundrel robed in hell's blackest panoply, and as 
conscienceless and cruel as the ravening tiger of the jungle and 
the swamp! (Great excitement). 

Gentlemen of the jury, I should question the sanity of any 
man who could tolerate for one moment the idea, or complacently 
smile at the knowledge that his wife, whom he loved affection- 
ately and conjugally, favored another than himself, or as many 
others as whim, caprice, or morbid fascination might prompt her 
to. Yet they say they can and actually do this very thing! If 



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they do, are they human, or have they sunk below the level of 
the brute beasts ? for these latter will die on the spot before they 
will yield the point involved ! Does man ascend toward immor- 
tality ? Do beasts descend to the level of mankind ? 

Again, suppose one of these philosopher has a family of 
beautiful daughters, will he teach them the harmlessness of his 
own mad vice ? Far from it ! Will he tell his sons that libertin- 
ism is right and proper ? Never ! Will he even tolerate free-love 
talk in their presence, and not feel a strong kick inclination 
toward the man who dares attempt it? No. His philosophy is 
all very fine and well, so far as he is concerned, with regard to 
all women outside the limits of his own household, but not within 
it ! He will not hesitate to prey upon the wife and daughters of 
any other man, but if the game is played on himself, he will 
cry like a spaniel kicked, and whine like a whipped hound — ■ 
as he is! (Applause). 

No free-lover, I care not who he is, has "philosophy" 
enough to relish the fact that his wife and daughters were the 
lemans of whoever had magnetism enough to subjugate their 
wills and natural morals to the extent of making them so. That 
good old rule called Golden, protests in thunder-tones against 
the specious villany I now dissect. 

This game of free-love works well enough, so long as their 
own corns are not trampled on; and their writhings when they 
are, is proof positive that not one of them at heart believes one 
word of the dreadful lie they are trying to thrust down the public 
throat. 

It may be said that I am ungrateful in thus attacking the 
system and logic of the speaker who preceded me, from whose 
lips fell many praises of myself and my career; but, gentlemen, 
eternal truth is of more value than the reputation of P. B. Ran- 
dolph, and tickle my ears who will or may, I am not to be 
cajoled into even the faint resemblance of yielding one jot or 
tittle against the truth God sent me on the eartii to propagate 
and defend ! ( In spite of the clerk's gavel, the audience would, 
and did cheer the orator). 

It is said that "To natter a. person adroitly, one must know 
three things — what they are, what they think they are, and what 
they want other people to think they are." Now in earlier days 
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tout cela." But it is true, I am sorry to say, that in other lines I 
have been flattered and cajoled by designing knaves, until 
between them all today I am stripped of every dollar; but then 
I never made a special study of the arts of financial villany, and 
therefore was not armed against it. I believed the people with 
whom I dealt, and whom I trusted, to be square and honest as 
they claimed to be, and not till all was lost did I realize the 
exquisite degree of rascality to which swindling could be car- 
ried. Not till I was beggared did I learn how an imperturbable 
front could cover up base and lascivious designs, and if I fell a 
victim to confidence operations, perhaps I am not the first, but 
hope to be the last. 

Who, I ask, who and what are my accusers ? Who of ihem 
all, the wide world over, dare face me with their scandals and 
slanders? Behold I know them all, and not one of their char- 
acters will bear the light! not one of whom but that has crime 
written on their fronts, and rapes, adulteries, swindlings, in- 
numerable to answer for hereafter, if not on the earth. I chal- 
lenge them all to compare characters ! 

Many are the calumnies that have been heaped upon my 
name by those who tried to, and failed in grinding their own 
axes at my expense. Sampson came to grief through a polished 
harlot. So did I! (Laughter). So has more than one other 
within the sound of my voice I (Squirming all over the room). 
What of it ? The lessons will serve their purpose if well learned. 
Now society may be likened unto the hero of Gaza and the foxes, 
and the Delilah is this painted harlot on whose cheeks the hue 
of the rose blushes, but in whose heart is lasciviousness, decep- 
tion and wickedness, whose name is free-love, and I, not she, 
cry, "The Philistines be upon thee!" just as they were upon 
myself ere while. But I and society have as yet been only tied 
with green withes; let us preserve our hair intact, and not let it 
be cut of; for when it is gone there's only one scene more, and 
that is death. 

For ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain, the mag- 
nates of free-love are peculiar, which assertion I dare to main- 
tain. And here is one of them: To tell a man's wife that her 
husband's magnetism is injurious to her, which undoubtedly 
may be, and very often is, true, but instead of teaching her how 
to avoid and annul the ill effect, as I have done in my books, and 



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in my consultations with thousands of such cases, these free- 
loveites' voices grow thick and husky with the hell-fire raging 
within, and they whisper the intended prey that her ill health, 
backaches, nervousness, gloom and chronic low spirits are the 
result of her husband's perverse magnetism, but that it can all be 
remedied by a new infusion of "mercury" and magnetism, with 
both of which himself — of course! — is highly charged, and a 
share of which he generously offers to supply her, first by pawing 
her head and bust, then by gazing intently in her eyes, all on the 
high priori principle, until at last, the poor woman, confused 
mesmerized, bewildered, and almost daft, knows not what she 
is doing, and another victim is added to the villain's score! (63) 
If these things were done openly, and for just what they are, it 
would be horrible enough, but to use the cloak of medical science 
and philosophy to boot, is the acme and climax of scoundrel] sm! 
True, like the play-bills, he advises her that the remedy is "for 
this occasion only," well knowing that once fallen, the road down 
hill is both steep and slippery. 

Gentlemen, it is charged that in my books I advocate prin- 
ciples which lead directly to that sort of thing. To that charge 
I have but one answer : It's a lie hot from Hell ! and whoever 
affirms that I either by speech or pen gave encouragement to 
such doctrines, is a vituperative liar, foul, villanous, diabolical 
and obscene! for I would sooner cut the tongue out of my head 
and burn the hand I write with, than for one moment sanction 
a doctrine like that — one whose cardinal principle is that lust is 
celestial, rape archangelical, and adultery a supreme white,robed 
virtue! I have spoken and written not permissum superiorum, 
for I do not acknowledge any human leader, but look only above 
for light and power: I have not written for the ignoble vulgus 
either, but for thinking, feeling men and women. True, in my 
books I have laid bare the secret springs of human action; and 
have revealed hundreds of the mysteries and miseries of love, but 
never trenched upon the respect and delicacy due to the finest 
and most sensitive lady on the earth, much less have I in any 
way pandered to a gross and sensual taste; for such things suit 
the mob, not people of refinement, delicacy and sense. 
(Applause). 

I have aimed to instruct the sex how to preserve themselves, 
and gain the a Sectional mastery over their sometimes rccalci- 



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trant, wandering, and not seldom brutal lords. I have told her 
how to magnetically get the upper hand of lover and husband 
alike, because she should have it, if for no other reason than to 
see how the world will thrive under the reign of a new set of 
rulers. Listen while I read a letter received since I have been 
pleading at this bar: — 

"Amesbury, Mass., April 9th, 1872. 
"Br. Randolph: — 

"Sir — I have just read 'Casca Llanna,' your new book, and 
have derived much benefit therefrom. Could I have read it 
seme years sooner it might have prevented much suffering. I 
very much want to circulate the book. 

"Very respectfully, 

Miss S. P. F." 

To this I replied: — 

"As I wrote the book on purpose to effect just such results 
among the thousands of the land, you or any other woman shall 
have all you can dispose of at half price. Send for them, even 
if you can pay but for twenty or forty copies. Could I afford it 
I would give them away, but in my impoverished state I must 
depend upon small editions, until fortune brightens up a little; 
when it does, I shall get out larger ones on equally good terms 
to others. P. B. R." 

Gentlemen of the jury: Do you believe that ladies would 
thus write for and about a work whose morals were questionable ? 
Or that I would dare to employ them to circulate them, if they 
were? The answer is apparent. No! True, I have told them 
how to hold affection when once gained; to inspire it where it 
exists not; and how to win it back from lover or husband when 
lest. Is not that better than fomenting trouble, setting divorce- 
sharpers at work, (64) or inculcating free-love? I think it is. 
Nowhere, and at no time, have I inculcated looseness of morals, 
however distorted were the views taken by the counsel for the 
prosecution. I am not in favor of free-love or any other sophis- 
tical abomination; nor of liberty to do as one pleases in the 
intimacies of human life, as do these howling dervishes of 
Christendom. O shame, where is thy blush? When a woman 
so far ignores the proprieties of life and delicacy of her sex, as 
to openly boast of her right, desire, and ability to quench the 
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one, two, three, ten, dozen or hundred others who look like, but 
are not men; and to whom she may be attracted: — 
"They are neither man nor woman, 
They are neither brute nor human, 
They are ghouls." 
They are shameless! They toss their heads, with an "I don't 
care what the people say, I feel that I'm right. I shall go the 
whole figure. I defy and despise public opinion!" 

Error, to be really dangerous, must have a preponderance 
of truth mingled with it, else it must hide itself and thrive only 
in the darkness; because it cannot bear the broad light of day. 
Shame is written on it, and sonner or later the veil will be torn 
away. Vice loses its charm when it flaunts its banners in the 
open air. Hence this ism is deprived of its deadliest fang, 
because whoever is forewarned, is forearmed also. Collect a 
hundred of these free-lovers together; question them all, and 
each will swear that while he or she devoutly believes in the 
theory, not one of them ventures on the practice! They know 
they lie! but shame is doing her proper work ! (Applause). In 
such a collection of them you might find some of the males who 
would brag, and chuckle over their asserted victories, as villains 
usually do, yet you will scarcely find a solitary female there but 
whose brow would mantle with the deep red flush of shame when 
she realized that all present were conscious of her infamy, and 
knew her to be a cyprian on the high-pressure principle and 
"philosophic" plan! Now if it is all right and true and divine, 
why not face the music when the band begins to play ? 

Is it not patent that each knows herself to be a rebel against 
universal womanhood ! Put them to the test, and their shrinking 
or forced bravado alike gives the lie to the sophism, of whose 
real truth they vainly try to convince themselves. In fact the 
radical steep-down lie of free-love is so patent to ordinary com- 
mon sense and fair reason, that no one at heart can possibly 
believe it and be sane at the same time? — for, if this foul thing 
enters their own homes, desolates their own firesides, and carries 
its deep damnation to their own hearts, then come regret, open- 
ings of eyes and tappings of tears from their own heavily,charged 
bosoms, when they come to find out how it is themselves, and see 
at their own hearth-stones how the bad thing works ! 

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it and civilization are wholly incompatible and antagonistic. 
What else, then, can I do, but be thankful to Heaven for this 
foul arrest, brought about by men who had solemnly sworn, 
before the altar, God, and on their own souls, to be true, men 
worthy of the grand and ancient Masonry into whose mysteries 
they sought to enter, as a prelude to entering the temples of Eng- 
lish and Scotch Masonry — enrolling themselves with the grand 
fraternity of the ages, yet whose secrets they would undoubtedly 
parade and babble at the street-corners, just as they did the 
apparent but really only trial secrets of the brotherhood of Rosi- 
crucians. (65) Thank God, they knew not one of Rosicrucia's 
real mysteries, and yet I owe it to other secret Brotherhoods — 
Masonry first, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and all others 
in the land — to bid them all beware of these traitors who may 
one day come tapping at their doors. Why should I not thank 
God for the fearful experiences of and with, and losses through 
and by, Bay, French, Churchill, and above all Robert H. Patton 
of Boston, and his special and particular female "friend" Mrs. 
Mercy, alias "Mert," Hathaway La Hue? Verily, she hath a 
way, and its hue is very peculiar! Muchly. Why should I not 
be glad, at even the loss of all but hope and courage, when the 
experience let me gaze down steep depths of almost fathomless 
villany, such as I dreamed impossible to exist in the hearts of 
those who broke my bread and meat, and ate my salt and hard 
earnings too? 

Why should I not be glad and patient over all this, seeing 
that it gives me a chance to pull the bell-ropes of warning to all 
mankind, until the ding-dong out on the da)^ and off upon the 
night shall be heard all over the land, and thus wake up the 
people and rouse them to the extinguishment of the bale-fires, 
and the purging of the nation of the shameless fanatics, whose 
morbid idiosyncracies need so much correction ! 

But these ismizers tell us that "universal marriagedom 
groans with anguish," and they propose to better it by making 
foul what little of good is still in it ! Gentlemen, these people 
ought to take lessons of the Virginia City philosopher, who thus 
describes his peculiar method of conjugal discipline: "When- 
ever I see she's got her mad up, if it is a dozen times a day, I 
just quietly say nothin', but kinder humor her; and she comes 
round all right after a while. Then when she throws things at 



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me, or gives a wild slash for me with the broom or rollin' pin, I 
just dodges a little, and she never hits me the third time before I 
get my eyes on her and let her know I disapprove of such action 
on her part. Perhaps I have to leave the house to show her this, 
but she soon sees the point. Then, by being careful not to 
irritate her, and letting her have her own way, I manage to make 
her do as I please." 

But instead of encouraging this bear and forbear idea, our 
modern "Reformers" propose to treat mankind for his social ills 
as "Pratt," the horse-tamer, treats unruly beasts; said he to his 
"Class," "If a horse kicks I devise means to call his attention 
toward his head; if he bites I amuse his other extremity, and so 
I cure him." Are we horses, gentlemen of the jury? Are we to 
be cured of our ills on the tamer's principle ? Well, that's about 
the sum and substance of their teaching. If our heads are at 
fault, we must undergo a course of profligacy. If our affections 
are sick, we must cure them by running every decent woman 
whom our infernalism may enable us to circumvent, and then 
betray. When a couple disagree, the proper thing is, not to make 
peace, but to fan the flames of discontent, until divorce ends the 
deadly game. I say that if both parties would follow the Western 
city man's plan, there'd soon be no ears to listen to the free -love 
twaddle now rattling round the land. 

I protest against the spurious tenderness which accuses God 
of leaving woman defenceless against man, when she has a 
stronger armament than ever thundered on Nile or Mississippi 
in her pure instincts. The penalty which falls upon her if she 
violates these instincts is not arbitrary, but a bolt launched 
from the Thorne of Equity, because purity is betrayed in its 
strongest citadel. Less gorgeouness of attire among the wealthy, 
in order that girls may have less temptation to sin, in order to 
emulate it, and industrial education to enable them to earn their 
own living, is one thing needed. It is woman herself, far more 
than her wrongs, which needs to be redressed. But, if this 
general freedom-shrieking gees on in the same spirit it has till 
now, the American women — the most brainful at least, on the 
globe — will become wholly unfitted for either wives or mothers, 
and be ready when the tocsin sounds, to emulate the ghastly 
deeds of the she-fiends of all three French Revolutions, against 
which horrors may merciful God defend us all! for the women 



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of those dreadful days began their mad careers by despising God, 
reviling religion, denouncing man, ay, and ended on the battle- 
field in the hulks and on the guillotine. 

Foreseeing such results is why I have written against their 
producing causes. 

Love which involves intimate domestic ties cannot at the 
same time be pure and general. By its very nature, it must be 
special. It must have one object, and one only, upon which to 
centre itself and lavish its immortal tenderness. Few women and 
less men know either how to manifest, cultivate, or maintain love. 
If they did there'd be fewer skeletons in their closets. 

Seeing, feeling, knowing these facts, I studied the subject 
for long years, in many lands, and, accumulating dollars one by 
one, finally printed what I had learned, and gave my books 
freely to the world. I say gave, for as I stand here, I have given 
away more than I ever sold, and was swindled out of the greater 
part of the balance. My books to the number of thirty thousand 
have been printed and circulated, yet I, their toiling author, have 
never yet realized sufficient food, shelter and clothing, from all I 
ever received for them. Perhaps it will not be so in the few years 
I shall yet be on the earth, for I somehow feel that my present 
persecution will raise up friends for me among the millions of the 
land, and that I shall at least have patrons enough to ensure me 
food while living, and decent burial when dead. 

Love of two, in honorable marriage, is the only true rule, 
and only insurance society has against anarchy and for its own 
preservation. They who fight against that rule and natural law, 
and claim diversity of and variety in love, are not truly human, 
but something much lower; nor can they be until they have 
learned that grand lesson — the main one for which the worlds 
were created. (66) 

Not a word, not a line, have I ever written or spoken to the 
detriment of human morals; but for the correction of errors, yes 
— for the broken-hearted ones standing on the brink of suicide 
and despair, death and madness; and I have saved them! I 
have written for those who have loved and lost, and shown them 
that hope and victory remained behind; for those who have 
yearned for affection and found it not, have I pointed the path 
where the treasure lay; for those whose careers have been a 
wearisome pilgrimage all along the ways of life, have I led the 



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route where the fountains were; and I have toiled and written for 
those who have merited and earned eternal rest beyond the stars, 
by reason of the fiery assation and ordeals they have been com- 
pelled to pass through; and who for that reason, will, after death, 
triumphantly enter the golden gates of immortal glory, heralded 
by the seraphim. For such have I written, and not for the larger 
hosts who have made marriage a wreck of lazare, and who have 
practically defied the sexual instinct — people without soul; for 
only the civilized and refined have it — all others spirit only ; and 
soul, not body or spirit, is that in which true immortality inheres; 
soul being the thinking, feeling, knowing, suffering, enjoying 
principle of man; and spirit is its soil. 

Unless a man has something more than life, sensation and 
intellect, he amounts to but a very small sum; because human 
existence without emotion, devotion, justice, charity, music, art, 
love of beauty, and above all, the kingly, central, well rounded 
love, is half a blank, more shadow than light, more low than 
high, excitability than principle. 

True immortality is the concentrated unification of all 
these; and the unjust, egotistic, partial, purse-proud, bigoted, 
lustful, cringing, double-dealing, two-faced, cowardly, selfish, 
mean, conceited, doggish, waspish, foxy, piggish person — in fact, 
the civilized savages generally, have not yet reached the plane 
of self -equipoise ; have not yet developed soul enough to appre- 
ciate truth, but are content to remain in a chronic state of puer- 
ility, out of which they must come before they have a real value 
and meaning in the great economy. To help bring them out is 
why I have ever championed the cause of woman, true woman, 
not on the suffrage or free-love basis, but on far higher and 
deeper grounds, for she has been a lifelong study with me; and 
the result of that study is that anything like licentious freedom 
is fatal to her in every sense. Her very nature forbids it. Every 
woman on earth appears different to every man, and only one 
can love her and have that love responded to! Every nature, 



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male, as well as female, has its separate and distinctive key and 
watchword. It answers to one, and one only, and will not, can- 
not respond to another; and no stronger, argument against the 
pernicious doctrine can be urged, for it is rooted and grounded 
in the very framework and constitution of the human soul — ■ 
planted there by the Infinite God Himself. 

Gentlemen, if in advocating such principles, I have violated 
any law, human or divine, let me suffer the just penalty." 

At Mr. Randolph's conclusion, the judge briefly charged the 
jury, who in two minnutes by the clock, and without leaving their 
seats, returned a verdict of not guilty. 



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MOTES OF REFERENCE 

In the publication of the Life of Dr. Randolph, it has been 
found necessary to have special attention called to certain por- 
tions of the work, because so many of those who had been stu- 
dents, betrayed him and the work in order to benefit therefrom, 
and again others who, never having studied in the Rosicrucian 
school, desired to benefit through the honorable prominence given 
to the work by the Brothers, and therefore attempted to defame 
him, in order that their nefamous thefts might not be discovered. 

With these, it is as with the thief, who has stolen another 
man's goods, and being caught in the act, nevertheless, tries to 
escape by taking to his heels, and, in finding others following 
him, will call cut "stop thief" in order to make those who are 
following him believe that he is an honest and wronged man, 
while some one ahead of him is the real culprit. 

The publisher of this work naturally regrets that such a 
step had to be taken at this time, but if there is a criminal, and 
we know of the fact and allow the crime to go unpunished, then 
We are equally responsible for the crime, because we do not 
attempt to make other crimes impossible by exposing the criminal. 

(1) It is of great importance to call the attention of all, 
to the fact, that one of the first Rosicrucian books to be published 
by Dr. Randolph was the book "Dealings with the Dead," 
which was copyrighted in the year of 1861. This is especially 
important because it shows that Dr. Randolph was actively 
engaged in the Rosicrucian work at that date. The present title 
of the book is "Soul, the Soul World." 

(2) Dr. Randolph was born in the City of New York, in 
the month of October, 1825. 

(5) His enemies have tried to defame him many times by 
telling' the old and exploded tale, that he was of negro blood. 
This was because some one took it for granted that he, being of 
a pronounced brunette type, must of necessity be of the negro 
race. Moreover, Dr. Randolph believed in Reincarnation, and 



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held that he was a reincarnation of a King of Madagascar of 
some five thousand years ago. But even if this were true, it 
would not make him a negro by any means. But, even had he 
been of negro blood, that was no disgrace, as there are men who 
have pure white skin, but whose hearts are as black as the dark- 
est night, such for instance, as those who have stolen his teach- 
ings, clothed them anew, and palmed them off as their own under 
a different name, or those who have put forth a philosophy ('sic) 
of their own, and stolen his honored name. Again, there have 
been, and are yet, many colored men whose hearts are as white 
as the driven snow. Judge not a man by the color of his skin, 
but by his acts, and by his works. "By their fruits shall ye 
know them." 

(4) It was in the year of 1861 that Dr. Randolph visited 
California, where he lectured for ten weeks on the Rosicrucian 
Doctrine. It was at that time the first Rosicrucian Lodge was 
founded in California ; and it was from the lectures delivered in 
California, that most of the doctrines, in fact, the very founda- 
tion, was taken for many of the systems known at the present 
day as New Thought, Theosophy, Mental Science, and all the 
other isms. Many a thought given out by him was seized upon 
and became the foundation for new cults, but never once did Dr. 
Randolph receive credit for them. However, this is simply to 
call attention to the fact that Dr. Randolph was actively 
engaged in Rosicrucian propaganda at that early date. 

(5) It was after these lectures were finished that Dr. 
Randolph departed for foreign shores, traveling through Eng- 
land, Scotland, Ireland, France, Malta, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, 
Palestine, Turkey, Greece and other countries, it was on one of 
these trips that he became the Grand Master cf the true Rose 
Cross Order of France, and then of the entire World. 

(6) While on this trip during the year cf 1861-62, he 
gathered the material for his wonderful work "Pre-Adamite 
Man," conceded to be one of the most scientific books on the 
subject, and it was this book that was dedicated to Abraham 
Lincoln, who was a very intimate friend of Dr. Randolph. 

(7) The Friendship between President Lincoln and Dr. 
Randolph was so close, and sincere, that President personally 
requested Dr. Randolph to undertake a mission, which was very 



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close to the heart of Lincoln, as he had ever the welfare of the 
negro at heart, and it was this love for a down-trodden race that 
made Lincoln so great a man, and it is this love for humanity 
which makes the Rosicrucian possible. 

(8) Among the many whom Dr. Randolph numbered as 
his friends, was Alexander Dumas, the novelist. Not only could 
Dr. Randolph find friends in his own country, but likewise in 
every country in the world, for he was stranger in none. 

(9) If any further proof were required to set at naught 
the foolish ideas that Dr. Randolph was of negro blood, then 
the fact, that John Randolph of Roanake, Va., was a close rela- 
tive, would surely be sufficient proof, and it must be borne in 
mind, that it was not Dr. Randolph who made this statement, 
but the Chicago Tribune, in an editorial. 

(10) Some have said it was a tale of his own that Presi- 
dent Lincoln had appointed him to work in the cause of the 
negro race, but here we also find the Chicago Tribune making 
this statement, in its editorial pages. 

(11) Moreover, we find the largest newspapers of that 
day. admitting that Dr. Randolph was as famous in England 
and France, as in his own country, and clippings from foreign 
papers prove this to be a fact. 

(12) Freeman B. Dowd became a student of Dr. P. B. 
Randolph, was taught many of the doctrines of the Rose Cross 
Order, and was admitted deeply into its mysteries. 

A work which has been before the public, bearing the name 
of F. B. Dowd as its author, and which defames Dr. Randolph, 
was never written by Freeman B. Dowd. 

(13) F. B. Dowd was not only a personal friend of Dr. 
Randolph, but as previously stated, was one of his most favored 
students. Every move was known to Dowd, and in this article he 
gives the exact date of Dr. Randolph's visit to California as Nov. 
2 1st, 1861, and also states that Dr. Randolph had already 
prepared the book "The Master Passion," or, the "Curtain 
Raised,'' a bock for which he suffered deeply later on, but today 
it is admitted to be one of the most sublime ever written by man. 

However, we do not have to speak so much of his books 
or their value, as we do of the dates, since it has been claimed 
by those who have boldly stolen the honored name of the Order 



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founded by Dr. Randolph, that he, Dr. Randolph wrote pseudo- 
works and was in disrepute, moreover, that the Order had not 
been founded in America until 1915, or more than sixty-five 
years later than the time when Dr. Randolph was actively en- 
gaged in the work. 

(14) At the time when Dowd prepared the sketch now 
under consideration, Dr. Randolph was engaged on "The Book 
of Rosicrucia," which was being prepared at the instance, of 
not only the Order in America, but at the instance of the Supreme 
Grand Lodge of the Order in America, Europe, and Asia, and 
this is the man who is said to have been in disrepute, and whose 
books, Clymer the expert printer, is accused of republishing — 

HOW I WISH THE ACCUSATION HURLED AT ME WAS TRUE, 

Truly, I would feel highly honored. 

(15) The Chicago Tribune stated in its editorial, that 
Dr. Randolph was as well known in England and France, as in 
his own country. Here we have a quotation from the "London 
Weekly Times." There is also a quotation from the "London 
Lloyd's News," thus proving the statement made by the Chicago 
Tribune was founded in truth. 

(16) Woodhull and Calfin's Weekly," Dec. 3rd, 1870, 
or forty-five years ago, in reviewing his book "Love and the 
Master Passion" proves it was well known that Dr. Randolph 
was a Rosicruclan, moreover, that he not only taught the doctrine, 
but admits that he lived up to his faith. Can those who have 
stolen his writings, and the honored name of the Fraternity he 
founded in America, say as much ? 

(17) Dr. Randolph was the nephew of John Randolph of 
Roanoke, Va. 

(18) Many attempts have been made to defame Dr. Ran- 
dolph, but will not the testimonial here given, and other endorse- 
ments given him, amply prove that the men who try to defame 
him have a set purpose in view? and that said purpose is not 
truth, but rather, the hiding of some truth they do not want 
known. One will hardly believe the men who signed the 
endorsement, would do so unless they knew that Dr. Randolph 
was all they said he was. 

(19) The writer of this memoir knows how Dr. Randolph 
must have felt, for one in the Order of the present day, not long 



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since, was arranging to turn over to the Order the sum of $50,000 
in gold for the purpose of establishing a laboratory and observa- 
tory, when said brother, A. W. Shirey, was foully murdered 
before he could carry out his intention. Thus, as we have said 
in the very beginning "History repeats itself." 

(20) This was in 1871. Take twenty years from this 
date, and we have 1851. Here we find it was a well known 
fact in 1851 that Dr. Randolph was a Rosicrucian, and a repre- 
sentative of that Order. 

(21) These three: Volantia, Rosicrucia and Decretism, 
are known to the Inner Order as "The Mystery of Eulis." 

(22) This same oath is required of all who desire to 
receive the Ceremonial or Ritualistic Initiation in the Rose Cross 
Order, and in 1910, at "Beverly Hall" a building was erected 
and dedicated, for the express purpose of holding Conclaves of 
the Rose Cross Order, and at such times confer the Ceremonial 
work. 

(23) This is the experience of all those who would really 
serve humanity. It is very often some of those within the ranks, 
those most trusted, who act as the betrayers. Thus I have found, 
that some of those whom I had taken in at "Beverly Hall," gave 
them the best that I could, sacrificed myself for them in every 
way, turned and betrayed not alone myself, for that amounts to 
very little, but betrayed the Order and some of its teachings, 
though the Inner teachings are never given to anyone until after 
they have been able to draw "the Fires from the Throne of 
Heaven to the throne within themselves" and then to act as 
betrayer will mean that which is worse than death to the 
traitor. 

But not alone has this been the experience of Dr. Randolph 
and myself, was it not also the experience of the Master Jesus? 
Truly, Dr. Randolph and I can expect no better treatment than 
Jesus received. 

(24) For this very reason it is at once apparent that any 
Order, calling itself Rosicrucian, no matter from whence they 
claim a Charter, which claims to make men Rosicrucians through 
the formality of a Ritual or ceremonial work, is clearly a fraud. 

The true Rose Cross is a training school. Has ever been 
such, and will ever remain such. It takes its Neophytes and 



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puts them through a careful course of study and training, and 
it is through this system that the Neophyte grows into a Rosi- 
crucian. After such growth, after fellowship in the Order has 
been obtained by Divine right, which is the privilege of fellow- 
ship through natural growth, then it is, that the Neophyte may 
have the ceremonial degree conferred upon himself. 

(25) Please note, that this article appeared in the Boston 
papers in the year of 1872, or more than 42 years before the New 
York people claim to be founding the Rose Cross Order. More- 
over, the papers stated that he had been engaged in establishing 
the Rosicrucian rooms for about four years, which adds to the 
number of years that Dr. Randolph had been engaged in the 
Rosicrucian work. 

(26) Here we find, that no matter how sincere a man may 
be, no matter how deeply he has the love of humanity at heart, 
there will always be traitors, who, for self-interest, will stoop to 
any deeds, no matter how degrading, in order to accomplish their 
point. At this date, it is not necessary to make apology for the 
books written by Dr. Randolp, as the true student will under- 
stand their great value, but it is gratifying to know, that even 
at that date there were Judges in Boston, who were fair, and who 
would not cooperate with a fraud, such as that attempted by 
the Bay, French, La Hue class of people. 

(27) Here we also find that Dr. Randolph had been 
a resident of Boston for twenty years before the arrest, which 
adds that number of years to his work in Boston, and thus 
we find that the Rosicrucian work in Boston actually dates from 
1852. 

(28) After the French-Bay-La Hue affair, Dr. Randolph 
was arrested for circulating his books, the claim being made by 
his enemies, that his books were obscene. Needless to say, just 
as the former Judge had found that his books were not immoral, 
so did the Jury find in this case, that there was nothing in Dr. 
Randolph's books which was not for the benefit of humanity. 
I wish to call particular attention to the Hon. Adolphus Skinner, 
as the statements made by him before the Court, and against 
Dr. Randolph are worthy of note, as they are our best evidence 
of Dr. Randolph's activity in the Rosicrucian work, they are also 
our best evidence that the statements made bv these others, who 



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have deliberately stolen the Ross Cross name, are absolutely false 
and were made in order to conceal their own peculiar method in 
making use of the property of others. 

(30) The reader should note that the accusations made 
against Dr. Randolph, by those who, at the present day, have 
deliberately stolen his title of the R.ose Cross, were denied by 
the prosecuting attorney, who freely admitted that Dr. Randolph 
was not a libertine, or a seducer of innocent girls, or other men's 
wives, he was considered morally incapable of that, but simply 
on the ground that his works might do harm. Here we have 
sufficient evidence of the absolute falsehoods circulated about 
Dr. Randolph, at the present day, for purely selfish purposes. 

(31) We of the true Rose Cross of the present day, hold 
this as true — that though man is the master of the universe, or 
may be master if he first obeys the mandates of Jesus — "Over- 
come thyself and thou mayst overcome all else" — we hold that 
woman is the flower in the garden of God, the most beautiful 
handiwork created by a Just and Knowing God. This we teach 
woman as Dr. Randolph taught in the foretime, and she is not 
to blame if man is a brute. If man becomes truly man, then he 
no longer complains at this statement, but glories in the fact that 
God made woman as perfect as He did. 

(32) Here the prosecuting attorney freely admits that Dr. 
Randolph was not a mere dabbler in science, but, he was in 
truth, a master of many. 

(33) Here we find the prosecuting attorney freely admit- 
ting, that the first case against Dr. Randolph was, without 
question, "a palpable prostitution of public law to compass pri- 
vate ends" and yet, it is from this case, that those who would 
profit by his great work, find material to defame him. 

(34) Here it is freely admitted that Dr. Randolph did 
relieve humankind, that he helped thousands, and that the mys- 
teries of the true Rose Cross help to minister to mind and heart, 
but that which is of greater importance, is the admission that he 
was not, like thousands of others, an imposter. 

(35) Here again it is freely admitted that Dr. Randolph 
traveled in all lands, and among all people, that he was unmo- 
lested by all, and even defied the Voudeaux of Louisiana, the 
most dreadful Black Magicians of the present day, more danger- 



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ous than any of those now working under the title of the "Devil 
Worshippers" in New York City and other places, to whose 
viles thousands of innocent girls, and women, are falling victims 
daily. If he did not fear these, then why should the Grand 
Master of the Rose Cross Order today fear them? Does he fear 
them? Let this book, issued at this time, be the answer. 

(36) This is the greatest vindication of our Order ever 
made by an enemy, for freely does the attorney admit that Dr. 
Randolph, like we of the presesnt day, believe in, and worship 
God, and that we train our children to do likewise. Moreover, 
we work solely through celestial, although Mystic means. 
This we admit, and further, we claim that we are totally against, 
and forever opposed, to all the Black Brotherhood and their 
destructive agents, now running wild all over this fair country, 
and even masquerading under a stolen name. 

(37) It was not the ignorant, nor the poor and lowly, who 
came to Dr. Randolph for help, and for instructions, but the 
greatest, most learned, and most refined people in the world. 

(38) This date is important, for it is from it that we date 
the Rose Cross Order in America. It was in the year of 1858 
that Dr. Randolph became active in the Rose Cross work, and 
tore away completely from all other work. Though, all the sects 
fought him, he did not give up, did not fail, but kept up the 
light. This shows the wonderful strength of the man, and his 
entire lack of fear, when he knew he was in the right. 

(39) Volantia, Decretism, and Posia, are the three parts 
of the Mysteries of Imperial Eulis, and given only to those who 
have, through long training, and not through some foolish 
ceremonialism, passed the "Terror of the Threshold." None 
can obtain this except through worth, and to obtain it in any 
other way, and use it, would result to the one making use of it, 
just contrary, to the results that would be obtained by those who 
had become prepared for its use through inner growth. 

(40) Here we have a mighty mystery, one that would help 
our physicians a thousand-fold in the cure of disease, if they 
would but investigate. To the proof: Take any dried, shriv- 
elled-up, man or woman, one full of aches and pains, let him 
or her fall in Love — truly in love, not simply en passioned — 
and watch the results, all the aches and pains will vanish, the 



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eye will become full of life and flashing fire, and the physical 
being will take on magnetic, vital power. What is the reason? 
simply that two conditions cannot exist in the body at the same 
time, any more than one can accurately think of two things at 
the same time. Both Jesus and St. John taught that love is 
life, ay, even that it is God. Therefore, when Love begins to 
take birth, Love being liee, all that which is contrary to life 
falls away, as the weak enemy falls before the powerful guns. 
Then, is the Rosicrucian doctrine wrong? Try it and see. 

(41) What an admission for a prosecuting attorney to 
make before a jury, with the idea that a jury would convict such 
a man unless he had actually committed a crime. And yet, this 
is true, for I have never known a patient to die under the care of 
a Rosicrucian physician. 

In several years of practice as a specialist, I have found 
that out of the hundreds of women treated, every single one 
could be readily cured from the ailments usually afflicting wo- 
men, if the cause was first removed, and if the patient was then 
given some real heart interest in life, even cancer of the internal 
organs, the most fearful of all diseases, gave way. Out of thou- 
sands of cases treated, not one was lost. 

(42) Here the admission is freely made, that Dr. Ran- 
dolph was then (1872) the Chief of the Order. Also, that this 
statement is confirmed by every member of the Order in the 
land. What then becomes of the false statements made by 
Lewis et at, stating that the Order, by virtue of a Charter from 
France, was net founded until 1915. 

(43) This statement was made in 1872 by the prosecuting 
attorney, it is an official statement that the Order was started in 
America in 1852. Some years thereafter Dr. Randolph left 
America, and travelled all over the world, and amongst the most 
Mystical bodies, it was at this time that he became Grand Master 
of the Order of the World. 

It was after his return that the Order was actively started 
in America, and has since continued to work faithfully for its 
sublime ideals. 

(44) At the present day there are possibly as many wo- 
men in the Order as men, and it is found that as a rule, the 
women are the most faithful of the Brotherhood, though at 



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times, it is admitted, some one woman forgets that she is "The 
flower in the Garden of God" and betrays her Order, thus falling 
under the control of the Black Brotherhood. 

(45) Even the prosecuting attorney of that time (1872)' 
was not ignorant of the fact that the Rose Cross Order is not 
a degree peddling institution, but, that it is a School of Spiritual- 
ity, where the student grows into the mysteries, step by step, 
grade after grade, reaching Hierarchy after Hierarchy, until true 
Initiation has been achieved. What then of the claims of those 
who, at the present day, attempt to make Rosicrucians in a night, 
through ceremonial work, which is not even Rosicrucian? Are 
they not frauds? Are they not part, and parcel of the Black 
school of Magicians, men and women who live but to betray? 

(46) Because to do so were to destroy. The true Rose 
Cross lives to construct, not to destroy. To give this word 
would be to belong to the Black Brotherhood, and it was no 
doubt this principle which it attempted to illustrate in "The 
Mysteries of Myra." We of the true Rose Cross do not attempt 
to punish, because we know, that those who betray will punish 
themselves, as did Judas after the betrayal of Jesus. 

(47) Money and finery pass away with time, but the truth 
taught to mankind, help given the needy, are the things that shall 
live forever, and the Rosicrucian builds for Eternity, not simply 
for the present. 

(48 No true Rosicrucian ever brags about the help he 
gives to others, to him the command: "Let not thy left hand 
know what thy right hand doeth" is binding. Nor do they ever 
refuse help to those who are worthy of help, but they are strong 
enough to refuse help to those not worthy, no matter how seem- 
ingly in need. The Rosicrucian looks to the heart, not to mere 
appearance. 

(49) Why should they be known, or intrusted, to any but 
the third degree members? Others, though tested, are not tested 
sufficiently, nor is their strength, under difficult conditions, 
known. 

Again, these secrets being the right of those of the Third 
Degree, what of those orders, styling themselves Rosicrucians, 
who possess only negative, Spritualistic teachings, or who, a la 
Lewis, Besant, Russak, and others of that kind, have only a 
ceremonial Initiation which can give no traiiying? 



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(50) It was also in the year of 1861 that his book, "Soul 
the Scul World" was first printed. Therein was given much 
of the Rosicrucian belief. 

(51 ) Here the statement is made by one not friendly with 
Dr. Randolph, that Lincoln had personally requested that "Pre- 
Adamite Man" be dedicated to himself. Always remember, that 
all these statements were made in 1872, and were used in order 
to attempt to convict Dr. Randolph. 

(52) The Rose Cross Order has always, and does yet, 
teache a better way for a woman to obtain that which belongs to 
her, than either through the ballot, or physical means. It 
teaches the right way, the true way, and the God-given way ; and 
every woman with love in her heart will want to follow this 
true way, although it is freely admitted that these teachings are 
of no benefit to the masculine woman, or the woman without true 
sex. 

(53) Should a book be suppressed because it teaches the 
truth, a truth in which there is no shame? True, those who 
have deliberately stolen our sacred name have claimed that my 
books should be suppressed, but then, one must expect, that the 
thief would rather have the one from whom he had stolen the 
goods, in prison, than be in prison himself for the stealing. 

(54) Another damaging admission — not a word that is 
indecent, net an indelicate allusion, in any of Dr. Randolph's 
books, but because they taught the truth, because they taught 
that which would bring us a greater humanity, they should be 
suppressed. 

(55) And the true woman, the woman with a heart that 
is warm, with a sex that is normal in every respect, is truly a 
queen, the most sublime creature that a mighty God could think 
of. But, and it is an important but, she must be a real woman. 
The village gossip, cold of sex, and small of heart, is not "The 
Flower in the Garden of the Gods," but the weed that runs to 
many seeds. 

(56) And right he was. The true woman has no use for 
the ballot, she possesses a greater power than can ever be found 
vested in the ballot. In a letter now before me, a well-known 
woman has this to say: 

"I hold fast to the Vision of a wonderful Mother-God, one 



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with the Father, endowed to the infinite power with all the 
attributes we have given to the word "mother." Of Her I ask 
that all those attributes manifest more and more through me. her 
child, (and the Father, cognizant, is glad that I ask of Her, one 
with Himself). She holds me in her lap, and as a babe, I draw 
from her, her loveliness, her purity, tenderness, patience, and 
wisdom, as much as I can, and more and more, as I grow to com- 
prehend capacity for more. Thus do I seem part of the Universal 
Mother to everything, to flowers, all life, human or other, a 
mother part toward all. I think the great mother part has not 
been taken sufficiently into account in our "religions." Man has 
always thought in tenns of himself, and masculinized even his 
God. Paul put women in the back pews of Christianity; Christ 
did not. Take woman out of the New Testament and the Cross 
would have to go too. That is perchance one reason why His 
beautiful creed appeals, and man made doctrines do not; to the 
soul, that, like all life, craves a mother. I think too, this is 
one reason for the great feminine upheavel today: the desire — 
at root, of the Mother-God for fuller recognition, fuller mani- 
festation. But so many of my sex have fallen into the race 
error of getting the "cart before the horse," putting the outer 
before the real of the Inner. The material thing of Equal 
Suffrage will never make woman the Evangel she is destined 
to be. Regarding War, for instance, we cry, that if we had a 
"Voice" in the government, there would be no wars. (As we are 
constituted at present there would doubtless be more). Why, we 
have now the first Voice. When the infant at her breast draws 
in a hatred and horror of war with its mother's milk, (and 
of all other evils likewise), then will war disappear with the 
rest of the noxious tribes. Votes for women : She has the first 
deciding vote, and always will. Better births, and not 
the ballot boxes will regenrate the race. 

Equally, when she dares teach her child to pray to the great, 
pure, divine mother- God (one with the Father) giving Her the 
same recognition in the child consciousness, then will she lay the 
foundation sure for reverence of the future man, for all mani- 
fests of that Mother. Also then, how simple for the Mystery of 
Sex to be unfolded in loveliness and not in lewdness, the divine 
power that makes us one with the Divine Creators — Father and 
Mother, masculine and feminine, in one, a glorious thing 



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to be crowned in the Holy of Holies, of our Sacred Inner Con- 
sciousness, and not smothered shamelessly in the darkest corners 
of Being. 

These are a few bits of my thoughts, and by them, inade- 
quately expressed, I am shaping my life. And when my sex 
will get closer in consciousness to her, and draw from Her, and 
teach Her (as well as Him), to their children, then will they 
become what it is Her desire, (and the Father, cognizant, 
approves) the blessed Evangel God-Mother of the world." 

Every woman can, should be — is destined to be — a 
Madonna : when she is, every child will become a Christ. 

When it is her blessed privilege — nay, duty — to bring 
forth saviours, what in the world does she need of Suffrage?" 

Nothing need to be added to this letter, it is clear, and to the 
point, and shows the true method for the saving of the race. 

(57) During the trial of Dr. Randolph, the Free -love 
cause was also on trial, and Mr. Selden Bennet made the plea 
for their cause, thinking that in the vindication of Dr. Randolph, 
should that happen, there would also be vindication for the 
Free-Love cause. 

(58) It has been said that Dr. Randolph believed in the 
Free-love theory, but here the advocate of Free-love admits that 
he does not. This testimony is very important, since the present 
day defamers of Dr. Randolph claim that he taught Free-love 
doctrines. 

(59) Through the former trial Dr. Randolph had been 
practically ruined, and not a cent remained in his possession, 
moreover, even his plates were in pawn, in order to get the neces- 
sary money to fight for the cause. Like Dr. Randolph, three 
times have I been practically ruined and but for the help of good 
friends — God bless them all — I would not have been able to 
continue. But God is just, and though these experiences are 
necessary in order to round us out, the Divine Law takes care 
that our enemies cannot ruin us to such a degree, that we cannot 
continue the Great Work. 

(60) Freely admitting that he does not even know that 
Dr. Randolph is interested in free-love, but if not interested, 
that he defies him as he does the others. 

(61) Dr. Randolph was his own attorney, as he did not 



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have the money to engage a good one. Here he boldly declares 
that he dees not believe in the doctrine of free-love, nor can 
any true man believe in it. 

(62) Here, as in the preceding paragraphs, Dr. Randolph 
condemns free-love without any reservation, and every statement 
he makes, I, as an humble worker in the cause, uphold to this 
day as a cardinal teaching of the true Rose Cross Fraternity. 

(63) It may not be believed by the many, but these very 
things are now taking place universally throughout this country, 
and there is an organized band, claiming to hold foreign chart- 
ers, who follow this work of practical damnation. Dr. Randolph 
labored to destroy these human vampires, and today, he is de- 
famed by those whom he would have destroyed. This is but 
natural, and to be expected, but we, his followers, cannot allow 
it to be said that he upheld these destructive practices. 

(64) Many so-called Occult orders in this country at the 
present day, through their teachings of the non-use of sex, have 
been the means of parting thousands of families throughout the 
country. 

The Rose Cross teaches right use. Right use is the Law. 
Non-use means stagnation, stagnation means death. It is the 
aim of the Order to point out the Way to erring humanity, in the 
marriage relation as in all else, and thus conserve the family 
ties, rather than tearing them asunder. 

But this teaching of non-use, is not only the means of 
destroying family ties, but it is the means of causing insanity 
in hundreds of instances, for where you find non-use, as before 
pointed out, you find stagnation, stagnation means death, and 
this steam of death poisons the entire system including the brain. 

Besides the breaking of family ties, and being the cause 
of insanity, it also, in many cases, is the direct cause of degenera- 
tion, as is clearly proven by the case in the Courts of India, 
respecting the semi-leader of a certain cult. 

(65) The Rose Cross tests its Neophytes well before it 
gives them the Inner teachings, and for this very reason, a long 
course of training, development and growth is necessary, for him 
who would truly enter Rosicrucia's Sacred Temple, and those 
calling themselves Rosicrucians, and making others believe they 



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can be made Rosicrucians in a night, are giving humanity its 
supreme Farce, a farce which is destructive to all that is highest 
in man, because it causes him to believe that which he is not, 
and thus allows him to live in delusion, preventing him from 
seeking further for the truth. 

(66) This is the only safe rule, the one upheld by the Rose 
Cross Order. 

In conclusion : I wish to state that, some twelve years ago, 
when the leaders of the true Rose Cross, the Illuminati, Order 
of Melchizadek, Priesthood of AEth, The Ancient Order of the 
Magi, Fraternity Sons of Osiris, and several others, found that 
men, who, having no training themselves in any of these 
branches, knowing nothing of the true teachings of these Orders, 
were deliberately stealing these titles and organizing bodies of 
men under them, and without authority from these already estab- 
lished bodies, they banded together, formed an outer Association, 
under the title of the Royal Fraternity Association, so as to 
protect these already established bodies. 

This Association was first started in 1902, and was called 
the International Academy of Science and Knights of the Mystic 
Shrine. In 1909 this body was reorganized and Incorporated as 
the Royal Fraternity Association. 

The above mentioned Orders are members in good standing, 
and any man, or set of men, claiming to have authority to estab- 
lish such Orders, but whose charter is not from the Association, 
is without a doubt deliberately trying to deceive the people, by 
professing to give them that which they have not, and we care 
not whether it is a la Lewis, Russak, Besant, Marsland, Plum- 
mer, Hiendel, Mori a El or any other person. 

To be forewarned is to be forearmed. 

In this book has been given the proof of the long existence 
of the Order in America, and most of this proof is from the lips 
of a prosecutor, and not from a friend. 



EXHIBIT A 

In the year 1912, I was informed that Annie Besant had 
started an order or society, calling it the "Temple of the Rosy 
Cross." 



196 The Rose Cross Order 

Finding the information correct, I at once wrote the fol- 
lowing letter: 

Allentown, Pa., November 21, 1912 
Editor of The Theosophical Messenger, Krotona, Cal. 
My dear Sir : 

A copy of the November number of The Theosophical Mes- 
senger has been mailed to me by one of the Theosophical Society. 
Also a personal letter reaches me, requesting me to read page 
120 of this number of the magazine. 

The statement made in your magazine concerning the Rosi- 
crucian Order is amazing to me. 

Among students, it is generally known that the Rosicrucian 
Order was founded in America in the year 1852, and that there 
has been a continuous line of Grand Masters ever since, under 
whom the work has been carried on. 

Moreover, books have been issued continually since then 
by the different Grand Masters. Proof of this fact can be 
found in the Library of Congress. 

Furthermore, it is known to all students of the Esoteric that 
the Rosicrucian Order is not Ritualistic, but absolutely Esoteric, 
or given to Soul Development. 

You must also be aware of the Law, a Law that holds abso- 
lutely on both the material and the spiritual plane, that only 
one body of a given Order can be recognized in any one country. 
It may have been necessary for the Theosophical Society to 
found a Ritualistic Order; but, surely Mrs. Besant is as able 
to invent a name as she is of founding a Ritualistic Order, and 
therefore does not need to take an honorable name that belongs 
to an Order long-established. This cannot bring credit to her 
or to her work, since the proof that the name belongs to an 
Order of recognized standing can be found in the copyrighted 
books issued by this Order. 

As before stated, all true students of the Occult and the 
Higher Knowledge know that the true Rosicrucian Order has 
long been in existence in this country. And these students, being 
fair-minded, will certainly conclude that it is not right, either 
under material or under Divine Law, for a newly founded body 
to take the name that rightly belongs to another body. 

Without doubt, Mrs. Besant is doing great good through the 
Theosophical Society, etc. .... but it is doubtful whether 



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she can accomplish good through the newly founded Temple 
of the Rose Cross when the truth becomes known — especially 
when I call your attention to the fact that F. B. Dowd published 
a book under that title which was copyrighted years ago. 

I mail you copy of booklet which was copyrighted in 1908, 
and again in 1911. 

This letter is not written in the spirit of criticism, but solely 
with the idea that justice and right may rule. If those who teach 
the higher truths will not uphold right and justice, then who will 
uphold them? 

I hope this matter may have both your careful consideration 
and that of Mrs. Besant, and that I may have a reply from you 
at an early date. Otherwise, I must give the matter publicity 
through our monthly magazine. 

Very truly yours, 

Signed, R. Swinburne Clymer. 

To this letter the following answer was received from the 
Headquarters at Krotona: 

December 3rd, 1912 
Mr. R. S. Clymer, Allentown, Pa. 
My dear Mr. Clymer : 

I have your letter of November 21st, and have duly trans- 
mitted the same to Mrs. Besant, since you desire that she should 
give "careful consideration" to the matters of which you write. 

Do ycu happen to be possessed of statistical information 
as to the number of societies and Orders already in existence, 
bearing the names Rosicrucian, Rose Cross, Rosy Cross, Rose 
Croix, etc? If so, would you kindly allow me to share the 
information with you ? 

In your answer I should be happy to know also how many 
of these societies were already established and in existence before 
Dr. Randolph founded the Order of which you are a member. 

Of course, ycu are aware of the fact that one of the higher 
degrees in Masonry is a Rose Cross (Croix) Degree. 

Your kind information upon the points mentioned will be 
appreciated by 

Yours sincerely, 

A. P. Warrington. 

To this letter the following replv was made : 



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Allentown, Pa., Dec. 16th, '12. 
A. P. Warrington, Los Angeles, Cal. 
My dear Mr. Warrington: 

Replying to your letter of December third, it gives me great 
pleasure to give you the following information. 

In America, there was no Society, Order, or Fraternity bear- 
ing the name Rosicrucian before Dr. P. B. Randolph founded 
the Rosicrucian Fraternity in its triple form. 

The Masonic body, when the Scottish Rite began to be 
worked, had a degree known as the Rose Croix as they have now ; 
but this must not be confused with the Rosicrucian Order, since 
it is purely Masonic and purely a Ritualistic Degree, making 
no pretense of inner teachings. 

Up to a few years ago, the Rosicrucian Order, or Fraternity, 
founded by Dr. Randolph, was the only one existing in America. 
Since then, the Rosicrucian .... has been started, which, 
I understand, is teaching Theosophy under that name. 

Some twenty years ago, the English Masonic Rose Cross 
began to do work in America, but that was given up entirely 
after the first attempt. 

Dr. Randolph used different names: such as, Rosicrucians ; 
Rosy Cross; Rose Cross; and Hierarch of the Rose Cross. The 
title Rose Croix is purely Masonic. 

I think I have given you all information at hand, but 
would kindly refer you to my book, "The Rosicrucians; their 
Teachings." If I may be of further service to you in any way, 
I shall be happy to comply. 

Very sincerely yours, 

Signed, R. S. Clymer. 



No answer was received to the above letter but a letter was 
received from Mrs. Besant, addressed from Adyar, India. 
EXHIBIT B 

Adyar, Madras, S., Jan. 8, 1913. 
Dear Sir: 

The name Rosicrucian is too old and too widely spread for 
any one of us to claim the exclusive use of it. Since the blessed 
Christian Rosencreutz founded it, the true Order has not 
perished. The 18th degree, the Rose Croix of Masonrv, bears 



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this name. It is widely spread in Germany under Dr. Steiner. 
It is found in other lands. The "Temple of the Rosy Cross" in 
no way interferes with any other Rosicrucian Order, ncr is it 
likely to be confused with any other, the name being quite dis- 
tinctive. We do not call it "The Rosicrucian Order," but its 
members are Knights Templars of the Rosy Cross. 

Sincerely, 

Annie Besant 
R. S. Clymer, Esq. 

In this letter evasion of the real issue is clearly shown. We 
did not claim that the Rose Cross was not widely known, for we 
well know that it is, otherwise Mrs. Besant would never have 
chosen it, but we did claim, and still do claim, that the true 
Rose Cross Order had long existed in America and that no other 
Society had a right, either legally, morally, or under Divine Law 
to take that title and use it. 

The title "Temple of the Rosy Cross," was used, and pro- 
tected under copyright, long before the Theosophical Society 
found that it had to organize ritualistic bodies in order to keep 
in existence. 

However, we then had faith in the leaders of the Society 
as at that time nothing was known of the inner works as aired 
in the Courts of India a short time thereafter, and which clearly 
proved that no justice could be had from these people. 

The following answer was made to the letter just given: 

Allentown, Pa., February 28th, ; 13 
Mrs. Annie Besant, Madras, India 
My dear Madam: 

Your letter of January 8th has been received and has had 
my careful attention. 

I fully agree with you that the Rosicrucian Order has not 
perished, but that it is now in existence as in the foretime. I 
further agree with you that no one has exclusive right to the 
name; but it has been a recognized fact that, when an Order 
or Fraternity of that name existed in a country, no other body 
should be started under the same name. 

As to the name, "Temple of the Rosy Cross," I believe that 
I called your attention to the fact that F. B. Dowd, a member of 



200 The Rose Cross Order 

the American body, issued a book under that title and had it 
copyrighted about twelve years ago. 

Respecting the name, "Knight Templars of the Rosy Cross," 
I wish to remark that the Degree, "Knight of the Rose and 
Cross," has been conferred upon many members by the Order of 
the Illuminati during the last sixteen years. In the early spring 
of 1912, a Convocation was held in their own Temple, in which 
the Degree was conferred upon representatives from many states. 

Do not think that I am criticizing in any way; for I am 
not, I simply call your attention to these facts without any 
intention of trying to change your plans. 
Very truly yours, 

R. S. Clymer 

For reports of scandals hinted at in this Introduction, the 
reader can write to "Divine Life Book Concern," 614 Oakland 
Boulevard, Chicago, 111., and get Pamphlets No. 1, 2 and 3. 
Price one cent each. 



EXHIBIT C 

In the Pittsburgh Sun, the leaders of the so-called Rosi- 
crucian Order, admit that they just began their work in America 
in 1915, and claim that the Order had not been established 
previous to that date. I think the data given thus far is suffi- 
cient to fully disprove these false statements. 

However, it may not be amiss to reproduce here an article 
which appeared in a Detroit, Mich., newspaper in 1910. This 
article, though unconsciously making some misstatements, never- 
theless proves that our teachers were actively engaged years 
before this so-called body started its work. 

WOMAN TEACHER FORMING "EXALTED FRATER- 
NITY OF ILLUMINATI" CLASSES 

Students Later May Join Order of Rosicrucians; 
Reincarnation Part or Belief 

"Why are our asylums full of the insane? Why are drunk- 
ards protected till they die violent deaths? Because they are 
obsessed by vampire spirits who need the deadly nourishment of 
the liquor to which they were prey during their lives in this 



The Rose Cross Order 201 

world," says Miss Laura B. Southard, instructor in "Soul 
Science, or Divine Illumination," at 93 Clifford Street. 

Miss Southard is organizing classes in the interests of "the 
Exalted Fraternity of the Illuminati," which is the kindergarten, 
as she terms it, that prepares the way to membership in the 
ancient order of the Rosicrucians, the American branch of which 
is incorporated at Allentown, Pa. 

In her own phraseology, the local "circle" studies a phil- 
osophy which "teaches development of the physical, mental and 
spiritual, giving balance and harmony, and making for success 
in the material, mental and spiritual." 

"We are in no way connected with faith healers, Christian 
Scientists, New Thoughters, or spiritualists. There is truth in 
all of these movements, but it is a small truth, and in the latter 
case dangerous. 

"We are studying the divine truths that Jesus studied in 
secret with the Essenes in Egypt, between his fifteenth and thir- 
tieth years, that period of his life which is unrecorded in the 
scriptures. We are studying a philosophy that is much older 
than Christianity, and which has been secret for centuries, as a 
result of persecutions long practiced in the dark ages. We now 
find it beneficial to keep it a secret order, for the great masses are 
unprepared for the powerful truths it has to open to them. 

'The true Rose Cross order, or order of the Rosicrucians, 
was instituted in America by Dr. Paschal Beverly Randolph in 
1852, and now holds secret meetings in every state in the union, 
and the isles of the sea. 

The Rosicrucians claim a more or less devoted discipleship 
from Abraham Lincoln, to whom one of their more pretentious 
volumes was dedicated "at his personal request." 

"We teach the philosophy of the immortal soul, founded on 
and built by the master mind in a healthy body. We believe that 
the desire to have proves the power to get. We teach you how 
to make of yourself what you will. We do not dabble in phe- 
nomena of the lower orders. We do not run healing parlors. 
We study. 

"There are now about 25 students in my 'kindergarten,' 
and from half a dozen to a dozen profound students. We have 
to weed out many, for first of all we require absolute purity of 
life and of example, and we know if the student docs not live up 



202 The Rose Cross Order 

to our standard. He cannot keep an evil life secret from us. We 
read the open book of life. We take no knowledge second 
handed. That is the trouble with other faiths and 'isms.' " 

But it appears from the publications of the order that if one 
desires to become a healer, "to have the power that the Christ 
said all might have," he may find the way through this strange 
cult. 

"Many people," says Miss Southard, "come to us claiming 
to be Rosicrucians, but we find them false. They have not the 
secrets. They have not the wonderful, hidden manuscripts. They 
are of the black order, not the white." 

Reincarnation is a fundamental in the philosophy of the 

order. 

• ••••• 

EXHIBIT C— SECOND PART 

In further proof of the absolutely false claims made by the 
several and various clandestine bodies, that the Rose Cross 
Order, and its various Councils and Conclaves have not been in 
existence in America before 1915, we here give in full an article 
which appeared in "The Initiates and the People" for December, 
1912, and which is a report in part of the Grand Convocation of 
the "Order of Initiate Masters," at which Conclave the Three 
Degrees had been conferred upon the delegates present. 

In order to prevent the confusion which these people who 
use a name to which they have no right, are trying to bring about, 
it may be here stated, that though the Rosicrucian Order is a 
distinct and separate body, there are, in the Great Fraternity, 
grades like that which hold in Masonry. For instance, as a base, 
there is the Blue Lodge, often called the York Rite, of three 
Degrees. Following this, along the York Rite branch there is 
the Royal Arch. Along the other, or Scottish Rite branch, there 
are the several grades, distinct and yet part of a whole. 

In the Great Fraternity we have the same thing. We have, 
first of all, the Illuminati as a starting point. Then the Rose 
Cross Order. Highest of all, the AEth Priesthood, this is the 
direct stem. As branches, there is the Order of the Magi. The 
Sons of Osiris, the Fraternity of the Masters, etc. Each is dis- 
tinct and separate, yet all in harmony. 

As an example, we may take the University, which, governed 



The Rose Cross Order 203 

by one supreme head, nevertheless, it has various courses and 
grants various degrees, and it is foolish to claim that the man who 
enrolls and takes the medical course and degree, has all the 
knowledge of the various other branches, such as Law, Theology, 
etc. 

AFTER THIRTEEN CENTURIES, TEMPLE OF 
INITIATION RE-ESTABLISHED 

In the Grand East, near mid-day, not far from the mid- 
year, in response to an invitation from the Supreme Grand 
Master, worthy members of the Imperial Order met in Grand 
Convocation. The place and the time are known only to those 
that were present and received degrees. 

The Imperial Order traces its fundamental principles of 
thought, and, in modified form, its systems of training to 
Atlantean origin, long prior to the Egyptian Priesthood of Ini- 
tiate Kings. 

The Imperial Order represents the Third Temple of Initia- 
tion in the Sacred Mysteries. The history of the First Temple 
covers a period of several thousand years. It claims among the 
first of its Supreme Grand Masters the wise King-Initiate, 
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus. After the fall of the temple — 
Irak Eulus — in A. D. 632, the Second Temple perpetuated in 
the Orient the Sacred Mysteries and their interpretation, through 
a succession of Initiate Kings, practically uninterrupted, down 
to the year 1789. The year 1789 marked the end of the Oriental 
rule and the decline of the Second Temple, and also marked 
the establishment of European and Occidental branches. The 
Third Temple was founded on American soil, about the year 
1861. It has faithfully preserved the sublime teachings in their 
purity, and has spread their beneficent influence in accordance 
with the dictates of wisdom and discretion. 

The First Temple gave both the Inner and the Outer Initia- 
tion. They had Temple ritual; and degrees were conferred on 
true Initiates. None except those that had passed through 
courses of effective training in the development of the Inner 
Being, and that had experienced the true Initiation were admitted 
to Temple degree work. 

The Second Temple, which covered a period of more than 
twelve hundred years, had no cuter initiation. Their work was 



204 The Rose Cross Order 

altogether a work of private instruction and of private guidance 
in the Inner Initiation. 

For almost thirteen centuries, there had been no Temple 
Convocation and no conferring of degrees through ceremonial 
rites. The recent Convocation of the Imperial Order is the first 
Temple Initiation that the Great Work has had since the fall of 
the Egyptian Temple — Irak Eulis — in A.D. 632. 

At this Convocation, the following degrees were conferred on 
those who, in their own experience, had crossed the Threshold: 
first, the "Imperial Degree;" second, the degree, "Priest of 
Mysteries," which gives a full interpretation of all systems of 
Symbology; third, the degree, "Order of Priesthood," which 
traces all religions to their origin, and interprets both their like- 
nesses and their variations. 

The Imperial Order has a ritual; but the ritual does not 
constitute Initiation. The ritual is only a form or a ceremony 
conferred on the aspirant, after he has become an Initiate. The 
Inner Initiation is the essential ; the Outer is secondary and non- 
essential. Before one can become a member of the visible Fra- 
ternity, he or she must already have been enrolled among the 
invisibles. In connection with the ceremonial features, there are 
no initiation fees, no monthly dues, no salaried officers. Money 
cannot buy one's way into such an organization. No one can 
join such a Fraternity. One must grow into eligibility to mem- 
bership through definite training of soul. There is only one way 
by which one may become an Initiate. "Straight is the gate, 
and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life." The one way 
is to live a life in harmony with the principles of the Christ, and 
to develop the Christ-nature in one's own soul. This way leads 
to true Initiation. After one has attained this, he comes to regard 
rites, ceremonies, passwords, and signs with comparative indiffer- 
ence. 

Initiation means development of all the faculties of the 
Inner Being. It is a process of growth, in which the soul, already 
illuminated, becomes acquainted with the dynamic center of 
Illumination, and learns to master and to direct the laws under- 
lying power of soul. The illuminated soul may enjoy the light 
and the warmth of illumination: the Initiate learns the mechan- 
ism of the dynamo that produces the light and the warmth, and 
comes to have a reasonable decree cf control over this dvnamo. 



The Rose Cross Order 205 

In order to become an Initiate, it is necessary to heed the injunc- 
tion: "Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
pray to thy Father which is in secret ; and thy Father which seeth 
in secret shall rew r ard thee openly." 

The Initiate makes little noise: silence, discretion in speech, 
unpretended good works, kind interpretation of others are his 
characteristics. He works through the powerful vibrations of 
thought, will, and love; this he does, not so much by a definite 
exercise of mind as by the unconscious influence of his normal 
thought-life. Fie seeks to become the servant of all, and con- 
siders the ministering spirit more to be desired than name or 
rank or title. The proverb, "Knowledge is power," he counts, at 
best, only a half-truth: for this, he substitutes the adage, "Good- 
ness is power." He recognizes the omnipotence of Will, but 
well understands that goodness must be established in one's own 
heart before one can claim the right to project will-power. 

Initiates seek illumination and development of soul, not for 
their own sake nor for the sake of personal greatness, but in 
order that they may be the better qualified to help their fellow- 
mortals upward tow T ard higher planes of consciousness. Many 
live such quiet, secluded lives, and are so free from intruding 
upon the sacred interests of others, that even they themselves, 
although they are conscious of the Christ within, little dream of 
the influence and the power they wield in their own community. 
Again, there have been Initiates in high positions of state, who 
let their light shine far and near, but who maintain a discreet 
silence regarding their own knowledge concerning the source of 
power. Vanity and self-pride have been transmuted into quali- 
ties of meekness and humility ; herein lies their strength. Having 
trod the lonely path of self-mastery and of self-abnegation, they 
regard it a sacred privilege to serve others in lowliness of spirit. 
Flaving silenced the dictates of the personal self, they are fear- 
less — Lincoln-like — in dispensing to these under their care the 
claims of justice, no matter what the cost may be to themselves. 

The motto of the founder of the Imperial Order in Americe 
may well be adopted by every acolyte of the temple : 
"Pledged to no sect; to no creed confined; 
The world my home, my brethren all mankind." 

The watchword, of the Order, TRY, seems simple and in- 
significant enough; but this little word of three leeters may 



206 The Rose Cross Order 

become a mighty power in one's heart, enabling one to pass from 
bad to better, from better to best, from ignorance to knowledge, 
from poverty to plenty, from weakness to power. 

"To be self-poised and perfect in motion, like the worlds 
swinging in space, is the prerogative of every human being; but 
only those who have found the center, and have lighted the flame 
on the altar, approach that condition." It is the purpose of the 
Imperial Order to teach men and women the secret of self -poise 
and to lead them to rhythmic activity in the affairs of life. It 
teaches them this by leading them to find the center of their own 
Being. To aspire to this is prophecy of attainment. True and 
pure aspiration connects the soul with the spaces of spirit vibrat- 
ing with immortal energies. 

The teachings of the Imperial Order are never imparted to 
classes or to groups. They cannot be thus taught. Each living 
being is an individual, and must learn to interpret and to obey 
the law of his own individuality. No two persons are alike; no 
two can be instructed in exactly the same way. Each must 
receive private instruction. The neophyte should be cautious 
about telling others of his experiences and his perplexities; to do 
this only does harm. Each person must put himself under the 
care of a competent Master. All seekers who are qualified in 
earnestness and in sincerity may enroll in the Imperial Order 
for instructions and for personal guidance. 

Next Convocation of the Imperial Order will be at the call 
of the Supreme Grand Master. Let all who hunger for the 
deeper teachings enroll for instructions. Those who are success- 
ful in crossing the Threshold will be eligible to an invitation to 

attend the Convocation. 

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EXHIBIT C— THIRD PART 

In calling further attention to pages 26 and 27 of this 
book, referring to the unauthorized use of the title of "Knight 



Th e Rose Cross Order 207 

of the Rose and Cross" we give verbatim, from the April, 1913, 
number of the "Initiates and the People" the following 
PROCLAMATION 

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INNER CIRCLE 

TEMPLE ONLLUMINATI 

It has been ordered that another Convocation of the Temple 
of the Illuminati shall be held the coming spring or summer; 
possibly, at the same time the Convocation was held in the year 
1912. 

The Convocation will convene at the same place as in the 
spring of 1912; and the Degree, "Knight of the Rose and 
Cross," will be conferred in the same Temple in which it was 
conferred during the former Convocation. 

All those who have attended past Convocations are again 
invited to be present and take part in the ceremonies; and all 
those who are eligible, but who have not yet received the honors 
of the degree, are invited to come and have it conferred upon 
them. 

The exact date has not yet been set. But we desire to hear 
from all who are taking the Soul Science lessons, and who desire 
to be present; and full information will then be given to them 
in due time. 

By order of the 

Master of the Temple. 

All readers who desire to verify the truth of the statements 
made, can order a bound copy of "The Initiates," wherein they 
will find these reports as given in the foregoing. 



208 1' HE Rose Cross Order 

EXHIBIT C— FOURTH PART 

On page 30 of the Introduction, you will find reference 
made to the Triangle, and to the fact, that when the two points 
are upward it represents the Black Brotherhood, while with the 
two points down and one point up, it represents the True Order 
and the Illuminated Soul. 

The same laws hold good with the Pentagram, and we wish 
to refer you to E. Levi, in his "Doctrine and Ritual of Magic," 
the most authorative book published. 

"It is the Star of the Magi; it is the sign of the Word made 
flesh; and according to the direction of its points, this absolute 
magical symbol represents order or confusion, the divine lamb 
Ormuz and St. John, or the accursed goat of Mendes. It is 
Initiation or Profanation; it is Lucifer or Vesper, the star of 
the morning or the evening. It is Mary or Lilith, victory or 
death, day or night. The Pentagram (or Triangle) with 

TWO POINTS IN THE ASCENDANT REPRESENTS SATAN AS THE 
GOAT OE THE SABBATH; W r HEN ONE POINT IS IN THE ASCEND- 
ANT, IT IS THE SIGN OE THE SAVIOUR. THE PENTAGRAM IS 
THE FIGURE OE THE HUMAN BODY, HAVING THE FOUR LIMBS, 
AND A SINGLE POINT REPRESENTING THE HEAD. A human figure, 

head downwards, naturally represents a demon; that is, intel- 
lectual subversion, disorder, or madness." 

When, therefore, you see the sacred sign of the True Order, 
used in the profane way, you can readily judge the Order so 
using it. "Forewarned is forearmed." Beware, lest you be drawn 
into the snare, and once caught in the net there is little chance of 
escape as the confessions of many prove. 



A CATALOG OF 

ROSICRUCIAN and 
SOUL SCIENCE AND SUCCESS BOOKS 




Try 



All books herein listed are part of the teachings formulated and 
given by The Temples of the Illuminati and Illumination 



Published by 

THE PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO. 

Allentown, Pa 



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THE SON OF GOD 

The Mystical Teachings of the Master or 
The Christic Interpretation 

The old edition of the book called, "The Son of Man," 
is sold out; and so great is the demand for it that it has been 
completely re-written and much enlarged, and harmonized with 
the teachings as given by the Temple of Illumination. 
Preface. 

In the Preface is summarized the fundamental principles 
of the Christic Interpretation and the characteristics of the 
Christic Law, as advocated by the Temples of Illumination and 
of the Illuminati. 
Jesus an Essene. 

In this chapter is given an historic sketch of the training 
that Jesus received among the Essenes. The harmony is clearly 
shown that exists between the teachings of the Essenes and 
those of the true Rosicrucian Order; and the connection between 
the old Essenean Order and the Rosicrucian Fraternity as 
founded in America by Dr. P. B. Randolph is clearly shown. 
The Son of God. 

Here the expressions of Jesus, "The Son of Man," and 
"then Son of God," are used as the basis of interpretation. The 
esoteric significance of these terms furnishes the foundation of 
the Essenean Law and its interpretation. 
The Sages. 

In this book are given quotations from the great sages 
representing different nationalities, to show that the Illuminated 
Masters of all ages agree in regard to the essentials of a living 
Religion and Philosophy, and that all those who lived in har- 
mony with the Divine Law reached the same state, of Soul 
Consciousness. 
The Cream of Christic Interpretation. 

In this book is found the cream of the Christic and the 
Rosicrucian teachings. It is a book that should be given to your 
friends, whoever they may be; and it is issued with this especial 
purpose in view. 
The Book Itself. 

The book is printed on laid paper, beautifully bound in silk 






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cloth so as to harmonize with "St. Matthew" and with "St. 
John." It is a $1.25 book; but, as we desire that it shall be 
used as a propaganda book, we offer it for 50 cents. 

A limited number of these books are bound in paper, and 
can be had for 25 cents. 

Some of the friends and the Brothers of the Illuminati 
have ordered as many as 20 copies in cloth, in order to use them 
as gift books. Do not miss obtaining at least one copy; and, if 
possible, order more to present to friends whom you wish well. 

CHRISTHOOD 



Second of the Text-books Issued by the Temple of 
Illumination 

Christie Power can be awakened only through obedience 
to the Divine Law. When we obey this Divine Law, then is the 
Christ Child born within us ; and, if we continue in the way, this 
child grows to manhood and enters into power. 

The millions are today looking forward to a world teacher, 
to a new interpretation of the Law; for they instinctively know 
that to understand the law, to live the Law, is to give man power. 

"Christhood" gives positive instructions concerning the 
power to be obtained through soul development. It not only 
hints at the powers, but it gives many clear instructions as to how 
to live in order that these powers may be obtained. 

Contents 
The Christ. 

Showing who and what the Christ is. The Son of God ; His 
Work; the Inner Man; how you may become the Son of God. 
The Divine in Man. 

Showing that all men are Divine if they but awaken the 
Divinity within them. It elucidates the meaning of "Man being 
the Temple of the Living God." 
Development. 

Giving the laws for the inner development which lead to 
Real Initiation. It also gives many of the laws and rules for 
Soul Development. 
Formology. 

Showing the necessity of forming a clear idea of what you 
wish to be. Also of the necessity of developing this idea. Full 



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mental laws are given. 
Power of Love. 

One of the greatest powers in the universe. It shows how 
all things may be accomplished. 
Christ and Osiris. 

Showing how the principles of the Christ and Osiris were 
the same, and much of ancient initiation is also given. 
Development and Employment. 

Proving that it is not necessary for the student to give up 
honest labor in order to become a Leader or Master. 
The Religion Demanded by the People. 

Millions realize that a true religion — a religion of the 
heart and soul — is much needed. Many grope in darkness, 
never finding light. The beauties and practical points of this 
religion are clearly set forth. 
Temple of Illumination. 

Giving a discourse on the Temple of the Illumination of 
the Soul. The religion that millions demand, but have here- 
tofore sought in vain. Leaders are wanted everywhere. 
Healing. 

True Soul Science. Giving concisely, but fully, instructions 
that are alone worth more than the cost of the book. 
Prayer. 

Explaining why prayer is, and is not, effective. It reveals 
this most important mystery. 
The Book Itself. 

The book is printed on laid paper, beautifully bound in 
silk cloth and side stamped in gold. It harmonizes with the first 
text-book, "Soul Science, the Way to Immortality." Price 75 
cents, postpaid. 

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SOUL SCIENCE THE WAY TO IMMORTALITY 



The Coming Christ 



It is universally admitted among scholars that we are on 
the Threshold of a new Dispensation. This means that we are 
expecting a new Law, which shall govern all things. To state 
this more correctly, we are expecting a new interpretation of the 
olcl Law, an interpretation that is at once practical and mystical, 



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Centuries ago, when civilization had reached a state some- 
what similar to the present, when the time was ripe for a new 
Law Giver, or a Master who should anew interpret the Law, 
Moses appeared to the civilization of that age. 

Centuries later, when the dispensation brought about by 
Moses was nearing an end, and new expectations arose among 
the people, the Master Jesus appeared and gave a new Interpre- 
tation to the same Laws interpreted by Moses centuries before. 

The old cycle is at an end, a new cycle has begun; and 
there is, among the people, anticipation of a new Age. As, in 
the long past, Moses gave a new interpretation to the people, 
Moses who had been taught and Initiated among the Egyptian 
Priesthood, and, as centuries later, the Master Jesus, also taught 
by that same Priesthood, then called the Essenes, so now, in the 
new Age, who other than the same School of Priesthood should 
give forth the New Interpretation of the Law? 

"Soul Science, the Way to Immortality" is the first of the 
text-books given out by this many-cycle-old school. In this 
book will be found a great many of the Christie Interpretations 
in harmony with the coming Age ; for in this book is pointed out 
"the Way, the Truth, and the Life." 
Annunciation, or Conception. 

' When the Soul succeeds in arousing the Mind and the Will 
to a desire for Truth, for Wisdom, and for greater Love, it is 
planting the seeds, or the Conception. Man cannot, and will 
not, accept of anything until there is something within him 
which tells him that it is truth. Thus, when we turn from an 
old condition to a new one, from an old belief to a new belief, it 
is a condition of Conception that has taken place. 
The Confession. 

Sorrow for old deeds and turning away from them, accept- 
ing new and higher belief in a just Law, and living in harmony 
with the Law — this is repentance. It is a confession; for to give 
up the old, and accept the new, is to confess that the old was in 
the wrong. 
Re-Birth — Baptism by Fire and the Holy Ghost. 

Few know the mystery of the Baptism by Fire. In this 
book the mystery is made so plain that all can understand it. 
The Baptism by Fire is the coming into Conscious Sonship with 
the Father— the Birth of the Christ. 



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The Coming of the Christ. 

The various theories and guesses of the unenlightened are 
completely changed into Light and Understanding, as the full 
truth is unfolded and the mystery concerning the Coming Christ 
is revealed. How will the Christ come ? When will he come ? 
Where will he come? 
The Judgment. 

The Judgment Day has been portrayed as a day of terrible 
trial. What is the Judgment? W r hen is it? Are all judged 
upon one day afar off, or is there a judgment every day and for 
every one? The Judgment has no terrors for those who know. 
The Judgment is not a day to be thought of with terror, but is 
something that we can change if we will. 
The Awakened Soul. 

The Soul that has awakened knows its birthright, knows 
good from evil, false from true. There are no more terrors of 
the Threshold when the soul awakens from its sleep and unfolds 
in Light and Wisdom — 1 when Illumination is reached. 
Building of a Soul. 

The mystery for the millions to know; for to know is to 
become free. There is a right way and a wrong way. The 
architect knows his plans of work, so should the soul builder. 
Every living human being must become a Soul builder in order 
to become Immortal. Many are building upon the sand, without 
knowledge of the rock of truth. 
Works and Faith. 

Where there is true faith, works will be manifested. Faith 
without works is dead. He who has true faith will do the works 
according to his faith. 
Understanding and Love. 

Those who know Love understand all mysteries. Love is 
the Key to Wisdom; and Wisdom unlocks the doors to Under- 
standing. 
Atonement. 

The meaning of At-one-ment. Unless we become at-one 
with the Father, we cannot know the Christ. To know the 
Christ is to become Illuminated. None can reach Immortality 
except through the Atonement. 
Crucifixion. 

The real meaning of Crucifixion. Soul Science and the 



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Christie Interpretation alone can give the true meaning. 
The Passover. 

There are few who know the true meaning of the Passover. 
The Passover is not a feast to be held once a year, but has a 
deeper, a mystical, or occult, meaning. None can become Im- 
mortal, none can become one with the Father, unless they have 
gone through the Passover. 
Illumination. 

Illumination is the resurrection of the Christ. The Resur- 
rection always comes after the Passover. 
The Christ. 

If we walk as he walked, we shall become like him. To 
walk as he walked is to obey the same laws that he obeyed and in 
the same way. Mere belief will not give us the Christ; but in 
believing and in doing alone is to be found the Christ. 
Healing. 

John the Baptist taught the Laws of the Mind, or Mental 
Healing; but Soul Science and the Christie Interpretation teach 
the Healing of the Soul. 
The Book Itself. 

The book is printed on laid paper, beautifully bound in 
silk cloth, and side and back stampel in gold. More than 200 
pages. Price $1.50, postpaid. 

THE ILLUMINATED FAITH 



St. John Mystically Interpreted 

A test was recently made by the Temple of the Iluminati 
to find out what subjects most interested those whose names 
were on their mailing lists. These subjects included "Soul 
Science and Success," "Spiritual or Mystic Christianity," and 
the "Christie Interpretation." Out of five thousand names, the 
largest number was interested in Mystical Christianity; the next 
largest number was interested in the Christie Interpretation. 

The book now offered to you is a complete and exhaustive 
Mystical Interpretation of the Gospel according to St. John, 
so well called the Philosopher of Love. 
Christhood. 

Throughout the lessons of the book, the subject of Christ- 



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hood is exhaustively dealt with. Do not think that the method 
of attaining Christhood is only hinted at; for much more than a 
hint is given concerning the subject. Indeed, it is carefully 
emphasized from many points of view. The teachings of St. 
John are treated in their entirety, and are fully and completely 
explained so that all may live the Illuminated Life and become 
as the Christ. 
Initiation. 

Throughout these lessons it is clearly shown that Attaining 
the state of Christhood means that he who so attains has reached 
Mastership, or Initiation. 
Soul Consciousness. 

To reach Christhood is to become Soul Conscious. Those 
who reach Soul Consciousness reach what several well-known 
writers have named "Cosmic Consciousness." 
Illumination. 

Illumination is reached when the mind has become awak- 
ened and enlightened, and when through this awakening the 
Mind Forces are used in the building, or creation, of a Soul that 
is "Consciously Conscious." 
The Goal. 

St. John recognized the one great Law — that the goal of all 
human endeavor is to become a Conscious Soul, a Cosmic Being, 
and that potential Christhood is nothing less than this. 
The Divine Law. 

Unless man understands the Divine Law and obeys it, he 
can reach neither Christhood nor Soul Consciousness, and it 
was the labor of St. John to teach men this Law. 
Love. 

St. John has been called the Philosopher of Love because 
the base of the whole work in the redemption of man, according 
to his teachings, is love. 
The Ancient Wisdom. 

The whole Philosophy is based upon the fundamental 
principles as taught in the Ancient Wisdom by the old Masters. 
Each Law is made plain, and, in many instances, appropriate 
illustrations are used. 
The Crucifixion and the Resurrection. 

The old Theological explanations are no longer believed in 
by mankind, and advanced criticism does not accept them. In 






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this book a clear explanation is given; and, in the light of the 
discoveries of the ^Eth Priesthood, it is shown, beyond the possi- 
bility of contradiction, that not only could Jesus, having become 
the Christ, arise from the tomb but that any man now on earth, 
if he will obey the Divine Law, can do the same. 
The Book Itself. 

The book is printed on laid paper, bound in silk cloth, 
and throughout is in harmony with, and a companion to, "St. 
Matthew." It contains 53 chapters or lessons, and can be 
used as a text-book in schools and colleges where "The Illum- 
inated Faith' is taught. Price $1.25, postpaid. 

THE ILLUMINATED FAITH 



The Christic Interpretation of St. Matthew 

Who does not know of the unrest among the multitudes of 
today? Who is not aware of the fact that the many have lost 
faith in the established church of the present day? Who is not 
aware of the clearly apparent fact that millions of people are 
seeking, here and there, for a new religion — a religion or relig- 
ious teaching, that is practical and can be applied in all the 
walks of life ? 

Many think that the Bible is a useless book, that it contra- 
dicts itself, that in it are found teachings which have been 
clearly disproved by science. 

But there is one thing these multitudes do not know. They 
do not know that there is nothing at all the matter with "the Old 
Book," they do not know that all that is in the book is actual, 
scientific truth. They do not know that the fault lies, not in the 
book, but in the interpretations of the book. 

In the Christic Interpretation, a clear distinction is made 
between those teachings of the book which should be considered 
literally, and those which must be considered symbolically. 

When this is done, we find that the teachings are practical, 
that they can be applied in ordinary life, and that to apply them 
means health, wisdom, peace of mind, and success in life. 

The Interpretation of St. Matthew is the first attempt of 
the Illuminati to give to the seeking world a clear interpretation 
of that Gospel. The interpretations are such as can readily be 
understood by all. These Laws can be applied in every-day 



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life; and to apply them is to find peace, it is to find new life, 
a new faith in God and His revealed teachings. 

To obey the Laws as interpreted in this book is to find the 
Christ, to find Conscious Sonship with the Father, and to find a 
religious faith that nothing can shake. 
The Higher Law. 

The Higher Law governs the body, the mind, the spirit, 
and the Soul. A clear distinction is made between these four 
departments of man's being. 

The Illuminati is the only school that makes this distinc- 
tion, and shows the reason for it. 
Development. 

The wise know that it is not well to undertake any develop- 
ment unless one clearly understands what he is doing. To under- 
take to run an engine, without understanding the mechanism, 
and how to set it in motion, how to stop it, how to feed, and how 
to oil it, would be dangerous. It is just as dangerous to meddle 
with the human machine without an understanding of the Divine 
Law. 
The Forces. 

The Divine Law controls all the forces in nature. The 
Divine Law and the Natural Law are one; but the Divine Law 
applies to the things of the Soul, while the Natural Laws apply 
to material manifestations. To break one is to break the other. 
True Guidance. 

The book is a guide. It is such a guide as all need who de- 
sire to follow the Path to Life, and Light, and Love. Occult 
and Mystical Laws are clearly interpreted, and the reasons given. 
Going Astray. 

There is no danger of the seeker's going astray if he studies 
these Laws and obeys them. 
The Forces and Their Use. 

All forces are for use; otherwise, a Wise Creator would 
never have brought them into existence. Wisely used, they will 
enable the seeker to make all the resources of his fourfold nature 
available and productive, so that he may create and execute 
plans, make his way through obstacles, and realize his highest 
ideals; in other words, an intelligent application of these forces 
will enable him to become and to accomplish. 
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The book explains, from various points of view, the Divine 
Law underlying all things; and, if you become thoroughly estab- 
lished in its principles, there will be little likelihood of reaction 
from the forces you set into motion by your intense desires. 
The Book Itself. 

The book contains 265 pages; is printed on beautiful laid 
paper, bound in silk cloth; side and back stamped in gold. Is a 
standard text-book to be used in Soul Science schools and col- 
leges and in class work. Is used at the "Beverly School of 
Sacred Science" when in session. Price $1.50, postpaid. 

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CHRISTISIS 

Higher Soul Culture 

The lessons on Soul Culture in this book are a happy com- 
bination of two important features : first, they afford instruction 
concerning the fundamental truths of life expressed in language 
simple yet comprehensive; second, they afford practical sugges- 
tions concerning the application of these truths to the develop- 
ment of one's Soul nature. Thus, they satisfy two needs of the 
honest seeker, instruction and self-training. 

The book is not for the idle curiosity-seeker. It is for the 
one who is eager to find the truth and is willing to submit him- 
self to patient self -training that the truth may be unveiled to his 
own consciousness. 

These are rightly called lessons, in that they teach; they 
are rightly called "lessons in Soul Culture," in that they offer 
and explain simple practical methods by which the Soul Nature 
of man may be developed. It is a text-book, in that it gives a 
definite course of study, and gives general outline of a specific 
course of self-training. 

It is a book for the teacher because it is an excellent guide, 
in that the expressions are clear, yet condensed, leaving room 
for the teacher to follow his own inspiration in expanding and in 
illustrating the principles taught therein. It is a book for the 
student who has no teacher, because the instructions are so clear 
that he need make no mistake. 
Lesson One. 

Teaching that within himself each one must seek for, and 



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find, all power. Telling what to do, and how to do it, in order to 
develop the likeness of the Christ, the true Christisis, within 
himself. 
Lesson Two. 

The beginning of wisdom and knowledge. Teaching the 
Science-Religion, the wedding of Science with Religion. The 
giving up of mere belief in the acceptation of reality. 
Lesson Three. 

Life is concentration. Concentration is accumulation. 
Accumulation is power. The Magnetic Center, its finding, 
development, and power. 
Lesson Four. 

The undeveloped soul within man, like unto a seed. The 
seeds that lie dormant, the seeds that spring up and die, and the 
seeds that spring up and grow. The Divine Spark within. The 
development of the Christisis. Man a creator. The esoteric 
teachings of the Masters. 
Lesson Five. 

The whole external universe is the outpicturing of the 
thoughts retained within the Infinite Soul. God pictures the 
universe in His mind, and it becomes. Likewise, man can pic- 
ture a universe in his own mind and cause it to become manifest. 
Material success and spiritual success. True success is one. 
The religion-science world. 
Lesson Six. 

The Master of Mysticism, Jacob Boehme. "God intro- 
duces His will into nature for the purpose of revealing His 
power in light and majesty to constitute a kingdom of joy." Will, 
the lever that lifts in any desired direction. How to use the 
power. Two aspects of the force. The grand faculty. 
Lesson Seven. 

Mind, not magnetic. Mind is electric. The Soul is the 
Magnetic Center. Mind the dynamo. Mind an electrical gen- 
erator. The laws of of creation. The great secret of personal 
magnetism. 
Lesson Eight. 

The physical plane. The earth plane. The Soul plane. 
Limitation is bondage. Limitation is not reality, it is not life. 
Life is universal, it is unlimited. We can draw from the Uni- 
versal Center as much as we need. We are limited only as we 



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limit ourselves. 
Lesson Nine. 

"I and the Father are One." "I am in the world, but not of 
the world." The proof that man may live on the earth plane, 
but not be of that plane. All states are but conditions of mind 
and soul. Man is limited only as he limits himself. The voice 
of conscience is the voice of God speaking within us. 
Lesson Ten. 

The new life. In trying to find the universal life, you try 
to find the Christisis. The Christisis is the Son of God. The 
Christisis is the unity of man with God. The Christisis is the 
wedding of Science with Religion. The becoming One. The 
Soul is the life of man. The body is simply the necessary vehicle 
through which to manifest. 
Lesson Eleven. 

Individual responsibility. No one can escape from the 
law of cause and effect. It is absolute. 
The Book Itself. 

The book consists of an Introduction ana eleven lessons. 

One hundred and ninety-two pages, printed on one side of sheet 

only. Printed on 80-pound beautiful cream Alexander book 

paper, and bound in buffing, with back and side stamped in gold. 

It is the text-book of the third year's lessons. 

This book may be bought separately. The price is $5.00. 
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THE DIVINE LAW 



Inner Aspect 

In this book, many of the aspects of the Divine Law are 
taught in their application to the life of man. 

The Laws here taught have to do with the Mystical side 
of life, those things which concern the Soul, the Life after this; 
or, the Law concerning the present life in its esoteric sense, so 
that, when the present life ends, it will be actually a continuation 
of the present life on another plane of existence. 

These Laws, as here taught, are practical. We know that 
they are practical; for they are, in nearly every case, answers 
to questions received from some perplexed student. These expo- 
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received from students in the Temple of Illuminati. We there- 
fore know that they are adapted to seekers' needs. 

These expositions of the Divine Law formerly appeared in 
The Initiates, and are demanded in book form, in order that 
the student may have ready access to various phases of the Fun- 
damental Law in its application to life. 

Contents 
Initiation. 

Around the word "Initiation" centers all the work that has 
to do with the student who takes up the higher Life, the life 
that is different from that which is ordinarily led by man. 
Moreover, there is no word in the English language which is 
explained in as many different ways as the word "Initiation." 
In this chapter, a sane, rational, and mystic explanation is given 
of the work of initiation ; and to give careful study to the chapter, 
and to heed the instructions contained therein, would be the 
means of saving thousands from unnecessary suffering and from 
traveling the wrong path, a path which leads to disappointment. 
The Cause of Suffering. 

Man suffers. There is no gainsaying that point. But why 
fs it necessary that he should suffer ? Is there a good reason for 
it? What is the reason? Does man suffer for any other acts 
than those connected with the present life? Does he suffer for 
the sake of others? All these questions are fully answered and 
a reason given for it. No sincere student can afford to be ignor- 
ant of the great Law; for it will show him that both God and the 
Law are just. 
Man in the Great Beyond. 

What is the status of man in the Beyond? Is his destiny 
irrevocably sealed at the transition called death ? After having 
lived a godless life during his earth existence, is he forever 
debarred from the opportunity to accept the divine standards, 
and to amend his ways in harmony with them? In this chapter, 
the life of man in the Beyond is made clear in every respect. He 
is taught the Laws and the conditions that make for the future, 
the life on the Soul plane. The Laws of growth and develop- 
ment are clearly taught; and he is shown just what is necessary 
in order to advance continually without being retarded by ignor- 
ance and false beliefs. This chapter alone is worth more to the 
sincere seeker than the cost of the book. 



Catalog o r Mystical Books 15 

The Origin and the Seat of Evil. 

Is there evil in the world? There are those, so-called 
teachers, who claim that there is no evil. This claim is based 
upon the fact that God made all things and that when he made 
them He made them good. The School of the Christie Interpre- 
tation admits this fact; but it recognizes the greater fact that, 
when God made man, he gave him free-will, the right to use 
things for good or for evil, and that a good thing can be used for 
an evil purpose. The Law is fully taught in this chapter, the 
reason and the cause for evil given, and clear instructions for 
the overcoming of evil through obedience to the Divine Law. 
The Status of the Soul. 

What is the Soul? Do all souls reach perfection? How 
are we to account for the different stages of development which 
different souls reach? 

This is one of the most important chapters in the book. It 
is clear, sane, and to the point. It shows just what the soul is, 
where it is, and what it may be. It answers the question that is 
uppermost in the minds of the multitudes. 
The Law of Freedom. 

What constitutes freedom? This is the question of the 
ages. All men desire to be free, to do as they think they should 
do; but few really know what freedom means. Very often they 
free themselves from one bondage only to come under a greater 
bondage. The old saying, "Know the truth and the truth shall 
make you free," is full of meaning; but we must know how to 
search for truth, where to find it, and how to apply it. 
The Law of Faithfulness. 

What constitutes faithfulness? To whom should we be 
faithful? All Divine Laws center around one Being, the One 
Being manifested in two. God the Father, or call Him what 
you will, is the One Being; man is but a part of that Being. To 
be faithful to God means to be faithful to the self. Faithfulness 
to these means faithfulness to all else; and to be faithful in truth, 
is to be a success upon all three planes of being. Faithfulness 
to the object underlies all real things in life, no matter upon what 
plane man may be. Before he can attain full satisfaction, man 
must understand the Law of Faithfulness. 
Protection Through the Divine Law. 

Can the mind of man be free from the adverse influences of 



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other minds ? Is it possible for man so to live, so to think, that 
he need not be affected adversely by the perverted wills of other 
human beings? These questions are agitating the minds of 
many, especially those who are becoming awakened to higher 
ideals of living and thinking, and are seriously perplexed over 
the possibility of becoming victims of unprincipled wills. In 
this chapter, the Laws are fully taught, and, if obeyed, there 
need be no fear whatever. Frankly stated, this chapter is alone 
worth more to the student of the Mystic and Occult than the cost 
of the set of books ; for it means freedom from fear concerning all 
evil influences of whatever nature. 
What of God, the Father? 

In this age when unbelief seems to be rife, when men 
seemingly believe in nothing, not even in themselves, it is high 
time that consideration be given to that which our forefathers, 
in faith and love, called God. Men now, are beginning to pre- 
tend that there is no God, no beneficent force in nature. Such is 
not the case, and the Christie Interpretation believes that, when 
men are taught the truth concerning the Father, they will again 
believe, and, through their faith, manifest the goodness of the 
Father. False interpretations of mystic truth has been the 
cause of the present unbelief. A mystic and sane interpretation 
will bring men to have faith, and, through their faith, to mani- 
fest goodness, truth, and power. 
Prayer and the Unity of Souls. 

Is there power in prayer ? Can Souls be united in a prayer, 
or a Sacred Mantram, and does such unity give power, or bring 
an answer from the source of power ? These questions are fully 
answered. Moreover, this chapter, clearly shows the true meth- 
od of prayer, which is, in fact, concentration. It shows why such 
concentration should be had, and why Sacred Mantrams do 
possess power. 
The Unborn and the Divine Law. 

There is no greater need than that of teaching prospective 
mothers the laws that concern motherhood, the law that makes it 
possible for them to have healthy, bright, and desirable children. 
There is a Divine Law which has to do with this ; for this is the 
most sacred duty of mankind. The instructions given are clear 
and to the point. It is possible for every woman to obey them, 
and therefore possible for every woman to have children that are. 



Catalog of Mystical Books 17 

desirable and an honor. 
The Book Itself. 

The book is printed on beautiful laid paper, bound in silk 
cloth, and in perfect harmony with the books, "St. John," "St. 
Matthew," and others of the Christie Interpretation The price 
is $1.25, postpaid. 

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THE DIVINE LAW- 



OUTER Aspect 

This book is a companion to the book, "Divine Law, Inner 
Aspect;" but it deals more with the Laws that have to do with 
success in life than with those Laws which concern only the 
Mystical, or the Inner, Life of man. 

However, it must not be understood that these same laws 
have not also to do with the Inner Life; for to break any Law 
that concerns the Physical being, or the material life, is also to 
break the Law that concerns the Soul ; but these Laws have more 
especially to do with the things of the physical plane. 

Contents 
The Leaders. 

Men have said that in this age it is almost impossible for a 
man to succeed. The fact is, never in the history of the world 
was there such a demand for real, capable men and women. But 
they must be capable in the real sense of the word, they must be 
fully rounded out, proficient in the things they would undertake ; 
and, above all, they must be loyal to that which they undertake, 
in other words, put their whole heart, mind, and soul into the 
work, and not attempt to dabble in this, that, and every other 
thing. The Illuminati, with its Christie Interpretation, needs 
leaders, true men and women; and there is power, contentment, 
and advancement for such. 
The Confessional. 

Can the confession, or rather, can any confessional have 
part in the work of the Illuminati ? To answer this question, we 
need but ask another : Is it necessary for men and women in the 
present age to confide in anyone? Is it necessary for them, at 
times, to relieve the mind of pent-up feelings? We do not 
endorse the old idea of the confessional; but we believe that 



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human nature is much the same today as in the fore time, and 
that men and women need those in whom they can confide, and 
from whom they can receive instructions and words of encourage- 
ment. 
A Promise, a Pledge, or an Oath. 

What of the promise, the pledge, or the oath, made by man? 
Is it to be upheld? Has it any place in the life of the modern 
man? These have been perplexing questions of many students; 
and the Christie Interpretation answers them clearly and fully 
and according to the Divine Law. 
Destructive Effect of Negative Yogaism. 

To the Western Mind, the terms, Adeptship, Mastership, 
Yogaism, Psychism, Yogi, Master, Adept, and Psychic, are apt 
to present vague and confused ideas. Moreover, in the present 
day, when destructive Occultism is being so widely taught, it is 
time to sound a warning so that the beginner may be protected 
from spurious occultism, from those teachings which would make 
him a mere machine, to be used by other beings, embodied and 
disembodied. The chapter is clear to the point, and spares no 
one, though absolutely impartial and just in its conclusions. 
Why is Man a Failure? 

What is it to be a failure? Why is man a failure? What 
constitutes a failure? When we know what it is to be a failure, 
the reason for it and what constitutes a failure, then are we also 
prepared to find the remedy and to apply it. W T hen we teach 
man the reason of his failure in every walk of life, then we can 
also teach him how to succeed, and this is one of the greatest 
works of the true teacher. This chapter on the cause of failure 
should be read, studied, and its suggestions applied by every 
man and woman in the world. The Laws applied will lead 
from failure to success. 
The Law of Vibration. 

Every one interested in the Occult and Mystic desires to 
advance in the science and the art of Soul Culture. Soul Cul- 
ture is based upon absolute law, just as the building of a house 
is based upon absolute laws, laws which are known to the 
architect. Unless the student fully understands the Laws of 
Vibration, he cannot make much progress; and, the sooner he 
understands that every thought, every desire, creates vibrations 
which help him either to build up or to tear down, the better 



Catalog of M ystical Books 19 

Magnetic, or Drawing, Power of the Mind. 

In nature, magnetism is active force, or energy. It is a 
drawing, or attractive, power. It is a force that draws things to 
itself. It may attract life, or life-giving forces ; or it may attract 
to itself that which produces death and failure. No one can be 
truly successful unless he possesses the power called "magne- 
tism;" and the more abundantly he posses it, the more successful 
he will be. 
Highest Magnetic, or Mth Power. 

Within every living thing, there is a power, a force, called 
magnetism. This power, this force, this energy, may be in 
different states of manifestation: it may be latent, it may be 
inert, it may be in an active state; or it may be reversed — that is, 
the power may be negative and of no use to its possessor; or it 
may even be misdirected and thus be a positive detriment to the 
possessor so long as it continues to be reversed. Without positive 
magnetism, man is a failure, no matter what his status on the 
earth plane may be. Learn the Law and be free. 
Thought and theMth Forces. 

In the forces produced by thought lies the secret of all power 
that man can ever obtain. By thought, we concentrate upon a 
given object; and, through concentration, we accumulate the 
power to obtain the thing desired. Herein is found the power 
that brings us either failure or success; and it is a lesson that 
all must learn in order to succeed. 
Miracles. 

The common error concerning miracles is to regard them 
as effects without causes, sudden vagaries of the Divine Mind. 
Effects without cause contradict nature and all natural laws. 
A single miracle of this class would destroy the universal har- 
mony, and reduce the universe to chaos. It is customary among 
both the educated and the common classes to designate 
miracles those things which the mind cannot comprehend. The 
chapter clearly explains the parable of the Master Jesus con 
ing the loaves of bread and the parable concerning wall 
upon the waters. 
The Book Itself. 

The book is printed en beautiful laid paper, bound in silk 
cloth, and in perfect harmony with the books of "St. John," "St. 



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Matthew," and others of the Christie Interpretation. The price 
is $1.25, postpaid. 



SPECIAL 

All the articles as they appear in these two books appeared 
in 'The Initiates." We have about 100 copies of the "The 
Initiates" beautifully bound in silk cloth. While they last, copies 
may be had for $2.00. 

By ordering a copy, you will have all that would appear in 
the two volumes besides some valuable additional matter. Order 
at once. 

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RAKADAZANISM 



The Exalted Life 

As the title indicates, this book deals with the Science and 
Art of LIVING — living the Highest Ideal possible to man. It 
pertains to the' culture and normal development of man's entire 
being — body, mind and soul. 

The book recommends itself to the true seeker particularly 
on this ground ; it is the result of years of practical experience in 
teaching the Higher Life to students. Consequently it is not an 
untried theory nor something far removed from human need. 
It is largely composed of material that has already been used in 
personal letters to students in answer to their question regarding 
individual difficulties. It has satisfied the needs of others, why 
not yours? 

The book recommends itself to the earnest seeker again, in 
the most helpful manner, in that it sounds a clear warning 
against certain erroneous teachings that may have come to the 
student and makes clear WHY they are erroneous. These sug- 
gestions and warnings alone are worth the price of the book to 
one who has wandered through many phases of modern teaching 
concerning the Science of Life; for fundamental principles are 
made so clear in this book that one can readily see wherein the 
error lies in other systems of Self- Culture. As one studies 
carefully The Exalted Life, something within says, '-'These 
principles and deductions are correct." 

The book presents the philosophy and general principles 



Catalog of Mystical Books 21 

underlying Self- Culture, including Health Culture, Soul Cul- 
ture, the natural method of Rejuvination of the body and conse- 
quent Regeneration of the whole being, leading to conscious 
Immortality of the Soul. 

The chapter on "The Metaphysics of Regeneration and 
Immortality" deals with such unique topics as these (among 
others not to be mentioned here for want of space) : Interpre- 
tation of the "Fall of Man;" Distinction between soul and 
spirit; First and Second "Fall of Man;" First and Second 
Resurrection of Man;" Correct use of the Sex Function in the 
process of Regeneration; Interpretation of the Tree of Life and 
the Tree of Death, the Flaming Sword, the Lifting up of the 
Serpent in the Wilderness; Women's exalted place in the work 
of the Regeneration of the race; Finding the Ineffable Light 
Within; The Bread and Water of Life; Physical and Spiritual 
Effects of the true exaltation of the sex forces; Correct Use is 
the Law in all things; Why a teacher is necessary in Soul 
Development; Soul growth must be gradual. 

The chapter on "The Science of Youth and Regeneration" 
or "The Regenerate Life" is full of inspiration. It deals wkh 
the Laws that govern health, strength and beauty, under such 
topics as these: Consciously cultivating a youthful mind and 
body; Constant renewal of physical cells; Transmutation of red 
corpuscles into white; Sex power is Soul power; Proper use of 
generative forces in promoting youthfulness and long life; The 
Elixir of Youth may be a reality; The Gospel of Life; Thought 
attitude concerning age and death; Destructive effects of fear; 
Regeneration belongs to body as well as soul. 

The closing chapter of the book deals with Hygienic Laws 
under such topics as, The Natural Food of Man; Bath for 
cleanliness and Bath for absorbing magnetism and for Soul- 
development; Correct Breathing; Value of Sun Bath. 

This book will be warmly received by the advanced student ; 
for it presents in a new light truths already known to him 
together with many new aspects of truth. To the beginner it is 
indispensable; for it will give him a correct start in regard to 
matters of fundamental importance. This book is worth while. 

Description. The book has 180 pages. Printed on good 
book paper and bound in cloth with gold stamp on side and back. 
A limited de Luxe edition was issued. This edition is in beauti- 



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ful Berkshire book paper and bound in silk cloth. The price 
of this to all is $10.00. 

This is a strictly private book and obligation of silence is 
required from all who desire it. 

"THE WAY TO LIFE AND IMMORTALITY" 



No book ever issued by this house has sold so well, and 
given such universal satisfaction, as "The Way to Life and 
Immortality. 

This has well been called the most important book of the 
Age. Those who are no longer satisfied with the present-day 
presentation of religion, science, and philosophy, and who believe 
that there is something greater, deeper, and more sublime in life 
than generally recognized, will find this just the book to en- 
lighten them regarding that something Higher, something 
Deeper, and something more Sublime. 

The teachings of the book are in entire harmony with the 
article on "The Divine Spark." In fact, this is the most impor- 
tant text-book of the Illuminati. 

The book contains more than 200 pages, printed on fine 
paper, and beautifully bound in cloth. Price, $1.25. 
****** 
"THE WAY TO GODHOOD" 



To those who want to get away from the poor, "worm-of- 
the-dust" idea, inculcated by many of the churches, no book 
ever issued is as important as this. This book teaches man so to 
live that he becomes not only a man, but even more than man; 
so to live that he will reach toward Godhood, toward all that is 
desirable, all that is worth while. 

It condemns the theory that man is a worm of the dust, and 
holds that man is not a weakling, but that he has within himself 
the germ of all strength; that he is not a slave, but a master; 
not a child of the devil, but a son of the Godhead. 

It is a book for the present age. It teaches a sane, a s virile, 
a powerful philosophy, and shows the way — to Godhood. 

It is a companion work to "The Way to Life and Immor- 



Catalog or Mystical Books 23 



tality;" and no sincere student should fail to obtain a copy of 
each. 

Printed and bound in harmony with the other book. Price, 
$1.25. 

Those desiring further information concerning one or both 
of these books before ordering, should write for circulars. 



"THE ROSICRUCIANS; THEIR TEACHINGS" 

It is now becoming an admitted fact, by those who have 
given any thought to the secret philosophies, that the Rosicrucian 
Fraternity has been the Mother-Father of all that is truly 
mystical. 

The Fraternity is "as old as the hills," and has never ceased 
to inculcate a sublime doctrine, though often its work has been 
secret and silent for centuries at a time. 

Now that a new awakening has come, this book, giving 
much of the fundamental teachings of the Fraternity, is both 
timely and valuable. 

Book is printed on fine paper, beautifully bound, contains 
212 pages, 6 by 9 inches. For a limited time, the $3.00 edition 
is being sold for $1.50. 



"THE PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE" 

It has been well said, that the Fire Philosophy is the basis 
of all religion, and of all religious mysteries. It is the underly- 
ing principle on which all secret Occult Brotherhoods are 
founded. This philosophy was the foundation of all ancient 
religious systems, and it is actually the life of every known 
religion at the present day. 

No one who is interested in any of the mysteries, in any of 
the Fraternities that teach a part of the mysteries, can afford 
to miss reading this book. 

In this work are given glimpses of nearly every mystic 
Order, of both ancient and mediaeval times, tracing the teachings 
from their first conception on the lost Atlantis, up to the present 
time. Some of the subjects touched upon are the Ancient Mys- 
teries, Secret Doctrines, Regeneration, the finding of the Christ, 
the Templars and the Essenes, and Higher Initiation 

Printed on fine paper, beautifully bound, 265 pages. Price, 
$1.50. 



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"THE MYSTERIES OF OSIRIS" 

More than one-half of the Masonic scholars hold that the 
Masonic Ritual is nothing more nor less than a rewritten ritual 
of the Ancient Egyptian Order. Be this as it may, it is true 
that the mysteries of Osiris were among the most sublime that 
have ever been taught by, or through, the Ritual of any Order 
known. 

This is a private work, and can be had only through an 
obligation of silence concerning its teachings. It should be in 
the library of every sincere seeker after truth, and in the library 
of every Mason. 

The Great Lost Secret which was reflected in the Ancient 
Initiation was the knowledge of God and His relation to nature 
and to man, and the knowledge of man and his relation to God 
and nature. The ancient Magi, Initiates, had an occult but 
absolutely science, wherein self-knowledge, God-knowledge, and 
nature-knowledge were combined in an exact and mathematical 
system. Of the teachings of the Magi, the Hermetic and profane 
sciences which have survived, were mere fragments, and were 
in turn used as a vocabulary, more as a means to conceal than to 
reveal. It makes no difference whether we call these sciences 
Astrology, Alchemy, Magic, Mythology, Natural Sciences, Phil- 
osophy, or Metaphysics. The book, "The Mysteries of Osiris, or 
Egyptian Initiation,'' is not an exposure, but a true Key to 
unlock the Great Mystery. 

In language as plain as it is possible to write of mystic 
subjects, free from jargon, the author has given us in this book 
a true history and explanation of the Great Initiation. 

We cannot too strongly recommend a careful study of this 
valuable work. 

Students of the inner knowledge will no doubt avail them- 
selves of this opportunity, especially since the edition is limited. 

The book is on cream queen laid paper, printed in blue ink, 
and bound in leather, gold stamp side and back, 260 pages, size 
6 by 9 inches. Price, $5.00. 

Write for special arrangements necessary to secure the work. 

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